Dear Craig Emery: Thank you very much for your reply. I am a Chinese boy and begin to learn programming on Linux.It's my interest.But at the very beginning ,everything seems too difficult.:) Anyway I love this. at # ,I type gtk-config --version ,it replys :1.2.5,so it seems that the GTK+ is going well? and I #man gtk-config to get help.But I do not know the relationship between "#gcc -o dest.c source.c `gtk-cong.......`" and command "gtk-config",could you tell me when you are free? thanks a lot! PS:forgive me that my english is not fluent. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Emery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GTK+" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:02 PM Subject: Re: Hi > Yup. Looks like you're using the wrong quotes in your compile command. > > You've got "single quotation marks" (i.e. ' ) but you need apostrophies > (i.e. ` ) > On my keyboard, the apostrophy is up by the non-keypad 1 key. > > Apostrophies (I've heard them called ticks too; that's only one sylable, > much easier to "talk") mean: "run this command and put it's output **here**" > > So the output of the call to gtk-config (that gives the compiler flags, > in your case, for bith #include directives and linking) will be supplied > to gcc. > > This is failrly simple shell stuff and, incidentally, nothing to do with > GTK+. > > The shell is your friend. Learn it well. > > Craig. > > linuxfun wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I am the beginner og GTK+ but I love it very much.Here is my probleom: > > > > I cannot compile my GTK programm hello.c in Redhat 6.1,use gcc hello.c > > -o hello 'gtk-config--cflags--libs',why? I installed workstation redhat. > > > > thank all of you! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list IbٚXXd+-z&ziX'gj)fjb?%