Compiling and running GTK+ application on Windows 7

Question

System: Windows7, 32 bit, GTK 2.24.10, mingw
I am trying to write basic helloworld.c type GTK based application. However, it doesn\'t run.
These are the steps which

Answer 1

The error is right here.

pkg-config is a utility which helps (and I strongly recommend) to determine link and lib flags. The issue you got is that gcc interprets it as a parameter if you pass them like you do - you need to exectue them in a subshell (but I have no clue how to do that under windows shell or cygwin) under bash it is either $(pkconfig --libs gtk-2.0) or with backticks around instead of $(...)

D:\gtk>gcc -Wall -g helloworld.c -o helloworld pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0
gcc: pkg-config: No such file or directory
gcc: gtk+-2.0: No such file or directory
gcc: pkg-config: No such file or directory
gcc: gtk+-2.0: No such file or directory
cc1.exe: error: unrecognized command line option "-fcflags"
cc1.exe: error: unrecognized command line option "-flibs"