Re: Please help a newbie Gnome developer...

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Robin Cull wrote:

> I am just starting out writing Gnome apps by trying to work through the
> excellent Havoc Pennington book.  All is going well with the coding and
> I am starting to get more confident with the GTK+ stuff.  However I am
> having problems when it comes to the Gnome side.  Whenever I #include
> <gnome.h> I get compilation errors to the effect: 
> 
> In file included from hello.c:2:
> /usr/include/gnome.h:4: gnomesupport.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from /usr/include/gdk/gdktypes.h:33,
>                  from /usr/include/gdk/gdk.h:31,
>                  from /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h:31,
>                  from /usr/include/gnome.h:6,
>                  from hello.c:2:
> /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory

You need to include the output of 'gnome-config --cflags gnomeui' on your
compilation command line.

e.g. in your Makefile

CFLAGS=-g -Wall -pipe `gnome-config --cflags gnomeui`
LIBS=`gnome-config --libs gnomeui`

Hope this helps,
-- Elliot
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.