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Subject: Re: GTK+ externals are unresolved
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:09:13 +0100
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Emmas" <johne53@tiscali.co.uk>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: GTK+ externals are unresolved

> Perhaps you're missing the file 'libgtk-x11-2.0.la' (it should be in
/lib/).
> Try linking to 'libgtk-x11-2.0.dll.a' temporarily.  If that works, you
might
> need to re-install gtk2-x11-devel.  Maybe part of it has gone missing.

That could be the "problem".

gtk2-x11* (Cygwin official) is from 2005 and does in no way comply to
modern GTK+ API standards.
The only way out might be a 2.1x version, which is only available on
Cygwin Ports ( http://sourceware.org/cygwinports )

-Andreas


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