Re: Error in compiling GTK+ applications

[Tony Gale <gale gtk org>]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 08:39, Kendl Tibor wrote:
> I've compiled and installed a gtk-2.3.2, and tried to compile a gtk 
> application, in this case a mozilla-1.6 browser. It's configure script 
> exited with an error that it cannot find the 'gtk-config' script. I 
> checked the whole / directory with mc's find file and it did not found 
> any gtk-config. Can anyone tell me what is this 'gtk-config' and why it 
> is needed?
> 
> This is the point when ./configure exited:
> 
> >checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
> >checking for gtk-config... no
> >checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
> >*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found.
> >*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> >*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
> >*** full path to gtk-config.
> >*** GTK+ is available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk

mozilla is looking for GTK 1.2 and you installed 2.3. gtk-config is only
shipped with GTK 1.x

-tony