First off you need to make sure your enviroments are setup correctly so that they see the libs .. you can do this under options and in project and c++ directories.. there is a lib section and a include section. you will need to add the lib directories and sub directories and the include directories and sub directories.. there is also a include in two of the lib sub directories which is needed for specific os setup. then you need to link agains the libs and make sure your code includes gtk/gtk.h there are two ways to link to the libs but im going to just show you one since i dont feel like showing you how to setup your projects options if you put this in your source code it will link against some libs that are needed #pragma comment(lib, "gtk-win32-2.0.lib") //gtk #pragma comment(lib, "gdk-win32-2.0.lib") //gdk #pragma comment(lib, "gdk_pixbuf-2.0.lib") //gdk-pixbuf #pragma comment(lib, "pango-1.0.lib") //pango #pragma comment(lib, "gobject-2.0.lib") //gobject #pragma comment(lib, "gmodule-2.0.lib") //gmodule #pragma comment(lib, "glib-2.0.lib") //glib #pragma comment(lib, "gthread-2.0.lib") //gthread this btw is only MS VS Specific and other compilers ignore it. if the installer does the job right you should not have to do all that since it should of put the directories in your systems global enviroment LIB but you would still have to tell the compiler to link against the libs in one way or another _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list