Re: [Mingw-users] Can't link in MSYS

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Saturday 14 March 2009 09:18:25 Nathan Schulte wrote:
> The issue is that whenever I try to compile and link the simplest
> code (like the gtkmm hello world example) as follows:
>
>         g++ `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtkmm-2.4` main.cpp
>
> all I get are a bunch of linker errors, [...]
>
> Does anyone know why this may be happening?

Looks like an argument ordering issue: no external references in 
main.cpp can *ever* be resolved, because there are no libraries 
specified *after* it, to provide resolution.  Conversely, any 
libraries specified by your pkg-config command will be simply and 
silently discarded, because there are no dependencies known for them, 
*before* they are parsed; (those will be defined in main.cpp, which 
is parsed too late).

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Regards,
Keith.