GTK Gui Module Help

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Wilkua
 #1
I'm trying to build an application using Brucey's GTK Gui module and it says:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglib-2.0
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Build Error: Failed to link myapp


Being a complete Linux newbie (at least for now) I have no idea what that means. Please help me.

Plash
 #2
Do you have GTK 2.0 installed?

Mark Tiffany
 #3
when you see this:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglib-2.

It means that the linker (ld) could not a the library named after the -l, i.e. glib-2. As Plash suggests, this is probably part of gtk dev module, so make sure you get it. Otherwise, search the interweb for that lib (and the next one that fails) and install the relevant modules.

skidracer
 #4
from the original gtk thread:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev