[Gretl-users] Installing gretl from source

[Allin Cottrell]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Talha Yalta wrote:

> I was fed up with all the windows stuck inside a single desktop 
> so I decided to try installing gretl snapshot in my newly 
> installed Kubuntu Dapper system. I am not very experienced in 
> compiling software on my own and here is what happened:
>
> After running ./configure everything goes fine except one error message:
>
> *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
> *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to gtk-config.

Hmm.  The "gtk-config" script is the configuration mechanism for 
gtk version 1.2, which is very old by now.  On a reasonably 
up-to-date system one would expect to find gtk 2.0, and it does 
its configuration using the pkg-config program.

I suspect that gretl's "configure" is falling back on gtk-1.2 
because it can't find the relevant gtk-2.0 files (and then 
failing, of course).

I recommend trying this command:

   pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0

(note the slightly odd string "gtk+-2.0").

If this command doesn't succeed, the "devel" packages for gtk 2.0 
are presumably not installed.  They probably shouldn't be hard to 
find.

Congratulations on joining the compiling club!  I trust the 
initial problems should be sorted out without too much grief.

Allin Cottrell