On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 14:20 -0500, Andres Gonzalez wrote: > Q: what actually does pkg-config do? It prints the appropriate package configuration (compiler/linker/...) flags to the standard output. You can check the flags by simply issuing pkg-config ... on the command line. The backquote construct simply tells the shell to use the output of pkg-config as if it were part of the current command. > Q: do I use `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` if I am using g++ and not > gcc? Yes because the flags are compatible. > Q: what is the reference to: __gxx_personality_v0 ?? > Q: how do I resolve that undefined reference error? See other response about -lstdc++. You should remember to use g++ for linking. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list