g++: error: pkg-config --libs --cflags gtkmm-2.4: No such file or directory

Sarvendu · 09-06-2012, 03:59 AM

I just step in into linix GUI development. I downloaded gtkmm-2.4. I wrote a simple program as follows:

#include <gtkmm.h>

int main (int argc, char **v){
Gtk::Main kit(argc, argv);

Gtk:: Window window;

window.set_default_size(600,360);

Gtk::Main::run(window);
return 0;
}

Whenever, i am trying to compile it from terminal using g++ Main.cpp -o main 'pkg-config --libs --cflags gtkmm-2.4' command, i am receiving "g++: error: pkg-config --libs --cflags gtkmm-2.4: No such file or directory" error.
I am using "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS". I installed gtk using following command from terminal

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtkmm-2.4.dev -y

I also verified the package config using pkg-config gtkmm-2.4 --cflags command and i receive following output in the terminal

-pthread -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/giomm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/giomm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pangomm-1.4/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-unix-print-2.0 -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/cairomm-1.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/

I am not sure what am i missing.

PS: Please provide me your thoughts/suggestions/solutions in simple format as i am new to linux kernel development.

Aquarius_Girl · 09-06-2012, 05:02 AM

What does this say?

Code:

pkg-config --list-all | grep gtk

Sarvendu · 09-06-2012, 05:16 AM

Please find below the result of provided command:

gtk+-2.0 GTK+ - GTK+ Graphical UI Library (x11 target)
gtk+-unix-print-2.0 GTK+ - GTK+ Unix print support
gtk+-x11-2.0 GTK+ - GTK+ Graphical UI Library (x11 target)
gtkmm-2.4 gtkmm - C++ binding for the GTK+ toolkit

knudfl · 09-06-2012, 06:21 AM

Quote:

g++ Main.cpp -o main 'pkg-config --libs --cflags gtkmm-2.4' command

Please try :
g++ `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtkmm-2.4` Main.cpp -o main

! Must be back-tics.

.

Sarvendu · 09-06-2012, 06:28 AM

After running the command; following was the response.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libgtkmm-2.4-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

Error still persists.

Aquarius_Girl · 09-06-2012, 06:29 AM

See Knud's "edited" post!

Sarvendu · 09-06-2012, 06:45 AM

There was an issue in the program. Corrected program as follows:

#include <gtkmm.h>

int main (int argc, char* argv[]){
Gtk::Main kit(argc, argv);

Gtk:: Window window;

Gtk::Main::run(window);

return 0;
}

Also compile with following command as per Knud's post

g++ `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtkmm-2.4` Main.cpp -o main

Received following errors:

/tmp/ccNHlRb6.o: In function `main':
Main.cpp

.text+0x28): undefined reference to `Gtk::Main::Main(int&, char**&, bool)'
Main.cpp

.text+0x3c): undefined reference to `Gtk::Window::Window(Gtk::WindowType)'
Main.cpp

.text+0x48): undefined reference to `Gtk::Main::run(Gtk::Window&)'
/tmp/ccNHlRb6.o: In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)':
Main.cpp

.text+0xc5): undefined reference to `Glib::ustring::ustring(char const*)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status