RE: Trouble getting pkg-config to work in Windows

"Stewart Weiss" <stewart.weiss@xxxxxxx> · Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:36:53 -0400

Yesudeep:

Thank 
you.
Using 
the installers from the installation video to which you sent a link below , I 
was successful in creating a working GTK+
environment. So far, I have been able to compile 
successfully in MSys shells,  Windows command line,
and 
within Dev-C++.  pkg-config finally works.  The major difference 
between what did not work and
what 
did work, was that before I was downloading the zip files from the Gimp download 
site,
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
and 
unzipping them into the MinGW directory. 

I want 
to note that I was successful in creating a working GTK+ environment under 
Cygwin by installing
GTK 
and then building pkg-config from source, from within a Cygwin shell, but it 
ONLY worked in Cygwin,
rather 
limiting. 

The 
next steps are to figure out how to create projects from withing Dev-C++ that do 
not create console
windows in addition to the window I create. I know I 
can use Glade to do this, but I do not want to work in
a GUI 
-- I prefer to write code.

One 
last note -- I could not view the video in any browser (plugins failed), nor in 
any application on my Windows 
machine (Nero, Realplayer, WinDVD, WMP). 
I had to view it in my Linux video player.  

Again, 
Thanks.
Stewart

  -----Original Message-----
From: Yesudeep 
  [mailto:yesudeep@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 7:42 
  AM
To: Stewart Weiss
Cc: 
  gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Trouble getting pkg-config to work 
  in Windows

Greetings,

On 6/9/07, Stewart Weiss <stewart.weiss@xxxxxxx> wrote:

    Thanks for the reply, but 
    the problem is more complex than this. Yesudeep's two 
    replies
    can be combined and 
    summarized as follows:
    1. Try installing using the 
    installers from http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net 
    2. Make sure that the 
    environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH is properly set by editing the 

        bash 
    configuration files and/or system environment variables.
    3. Use the installation 
    instructions from http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/GladeGuide 

        ( 
    written by Chris Lale, on how to use Glade with 
    Win32)

<snip>

I 
  seem to agree with the old Chinese proverb: "A picture is worth a thousand 
  words".
I'd like to add a little more to it though: "A movie is worth a 
  million." 
Here's a screen-cast demonstrating installing GTK+ on 
  Windows:

http://www.jamesbooker.co.uk/~jburd/gtk/install/win32/

Note:  
  I do not have Cygwin installed on my machine, and when I did 
I avoided 
  adding Cygwin paths/executables to my PATH environment variable.  

That dramatically reduced the problems I was facing.  The UNIX tools 
  you see
me using are from the GNUWin32 project.

If installing this 
  way does not solve your problem, do let us know. 

Regards,
Yesudeep.
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