The GTK+ 2.0 Tutorial states that the command for compiling the hello world application is: $ gcc -Wall -g helloworld.c -o helloworld \ `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0` but this gives the wrong result when compiling on MSYS with MinGW. The link command for GUI applications are normally given the -mwindows option, so that the application does not create a console window when run outside of MSYS, yet the output of pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 fails to include -mwindows. The purpose of pkg-config is to allow authors to easily write platform independent build scripts, so it should include this option in its output. For the unusual case in which authors want console input in a GUI application, they should add -mconsole option to the end of the link command line. Failure to include -mwindows in pkg-config output is a real pain in the neck for GNU autotools users. One possible fix is to ask those compiling the program to configure with: $ ./configure LDFLAGS=-mwindows This does not work for my application, GTK Sudoku. It builds a GUI program and a simple console only application. The console only application should not be linked with the -mwindows option. Users of FLTK and wxWidgets would be surprised by the behavior of pkg-config. On Windows, their configure scripts, fltk-config and wx-config, include -mwindows in their linker output, so it's easy to write platform independent build files. I attempted to submit a bug report on pkg-config at bugzilla.gnome.org, but I get the message: Sorry, entering bug reports into the product pkg-config has been disabled. John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
