need help with gcc

[jimgardener]

forgive me if this is off topic..
i am new to c programming with gcc(using cygwin on WinXP)
I have gtk in my cygwin installation (in lib\gtk-2.0)..and was trying
to compile c code that uses gtk widgets..

...i tried the first example from gtk tutorial(http://www.gtk.org/
tutorial/) and used

gcc mycode.c -o mycode `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk-2.0`
to compile it
i have pkg-config.exe in the cygwin/bin folder (which is set in
PATH)and still i get error msg
'gcc: `pkg-config: No such file or directory
gcc: gtk-2.0`: No such file or directory
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fcflags"
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-flibs"

can anyone tell me how i can get this correctly compiled?
jim

[Flash Gordon]

jimgardener wrote, On 19/01/08 07:45:

forgive me if this is off topic..

It is. In future please check what is topical *before* posting somewhere.

<snip>

gcc mycode.c -o mycode `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk-2.0`
to compile it
i have pkg-config.exe in the cygwin/bin folder (which is set in
PATH)and still i get error msg
'gcc: `pkg-config: No such file or directory

<snip>

I suggest asking on the Cygwin mailing lists where they will know how to
get things correctly configured in Cygwin. This is nothing to do with C.
--
Flash Gordon

[jimgardener]

>
I suggest asking on the Cygwin mailing lists where they will know how to
get things correctly configured in Cygwin. This is nothing to do with C.
--

sorry FG,..beginner's blunder..
in fact i posted this qn to windows.cygwin grp and there was no
response..
anyway thanx for the advise..will be more careful
jim

[Flash Gordon]

jimgardener wrote, On 19/01/08 14:16:

>I suggest asking on the Cygwin mailing lists where they will know how to
get things correctly configured in Cygwin. This is nothing to do with C.

sorry FG,..beginner's blunder..
in fact i posted this qn to windows.cygwin grp and there was no
response..

Try the mailing lists rather than a group.

anyway thanx for the advise..will be more careful

No problem.
--
Flash Gordon

[Pierre Asselin]

Okay, so we already know that this is off-topic, but

jimgardener <ji*********@gmail.comwrote:

[ ... ] and still i get error msg
'gcc: `pkg-config: No such file or directory

^
|
+----- notice the backtick

Is this the *exact* error message ? It's as if your shell treated
the backtick as an ordinary character instead of the beginning of
a shell escape. It passed the string <<`pkg-config>to gcc as a
command-line argument and gcc complained that no such source file
exists. After that it went from bad to worse. You *are* typing
this in a cygwin shell as opposed to a DOS box, right?

Any luck with better cygwin forums ? I haven't looked at www.cygwin.org
in a long time, but you might find good pointers there.
--
pa at panix dot com