Getting Started with C development and GTK+

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I'm really a Python developer exclusively, but I'm making my first foray into C programming now, and I'm having a lot of trouble getting started. I can't seem to get the hang of compilation and including libraries. At this point, I'm just identifying the libraries that I need and trying to compile them with a basic "hello, world" app just to make sure that I have my environment setup to do the actual programming. This is a DBus backend application that will use GIO to connect to DBus. ``` #include #include int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { printf("hello, world"); return 0; } ``` Then, I try to compile: ``` ~$ gcc main.c main.c:2:21: fatal error: gio/gio.h: No such file or directory #include ``` I believe that I've installed the correct packages as indicated here, and gio.h exists at `/usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio.h`. I found a command online to add a search directory to gcc, but that resulted in other errors: ``` ~$ gcc -I /usr/include/glib-2.0/ ma…

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Use `pkg-config` (and `make`). See exactly this answer to a very similar question. See also this and that answers. Don't forget `-Wall -g` flags to `gcc` ..

You don't need an IDE to compile your code (the IDE will just run some `gcc` commands, so better know how to use them yourself).

Getting Started with C development and GTK+

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