gtk development headers / pidgin

ryanfx · 10-07-2007, 05:26 PM

Hey everyone, I just finished (after a couple hours lol) trying to build a new version of GTK+2.0 from source. I finally managed to get it sucessfully built on slackware.

I am trying to install pidgin from source now and It's saying I am missing the development headers from GTK

Code:

configure: error:

You must have the GTK+ 2.0 development headers installed to compile Pidgin.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but shouldn't I already have the development headers but it just can't find them? If so, I believe the development headers are the .h files? I did a "locate gtk*.h" and this is a fraction of my output. Are these the development headers? If so, how can I get pidgin to point to them? Thanks a lot for any suggestions you may have!

Code:

/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkx.h
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkcairo.h
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkcolor.h
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkcursor.h
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkdisplay.h
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkdnd.h
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkdrawable.h

AdaHacker · 10-07-2007, 09:08 PM

Try setting your PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. GTK+ 2.0 uses pkg-config to determine the paths to headers and libraries, which keeps this information in a *.pc file. Normally, the default location for these .pc files is /usr/lib/pkgconfig. However, if you installed from source, the gtk+-2.0.pc file probably ended up in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig, where pkg-config isn't looking. You need to set the environment variable to tell it to check there. Consult the pkg-config man page for more information.

ryanfx · 10-07-2007, 11:03 PM

well it turns out I may have more issues than I thought.. I didn't notice that my GTK didn't successfully build, and instead I got a:

Code:

/usr/local/lib/libcairo.so: undefined reference to `FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [gtk-demo] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/root/programs/kit/gtk+-2.10.14/demos/gtk-demo'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/programs/kit/gtk+-2.10.14/demos/gtk-demo'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/programs/kit/gtk+-2.10.14/demos'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/programs/kit/gtk+-2.10.14/demos'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/programs/kit/gtk+-2.10.14'
make: *** [all] Error 2

any ideas on that one? =/