[cairo] Tripping on first step - cannot compile "hello world" with Cairo on Mingwenv

[mathog]

On 08-Mar-2012 10:13, mathog wrote:

Correction hat should have been mingw environment, not mingwenv.

> Then run the command:
>
> gcc -o test -mms-bitfields -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/include/gtk-2.0
> -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/lib/gtk-2.0/include
> -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/include/atk-1.0 -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/include/cairo
> -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0
> -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/include/pango-1.0
> -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/include/glib-2.0
> -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/lib/glib-2.0/include
> -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/include/pixman-1 -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/include
> -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/include/freetype2
> -Ic:/progs/devlibs2/include/libpng12  -Lc:/progs/devlibs2/lib
> -lgtk-win32-2.0 -lgdk-win32-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangowin32-1.0
> -lgdi32 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo
> -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl test.c

changing the last part to

-lintl test.c c:/progs/devlibs2/lib/libcairo.dll.a 
c:/progs/devlibs2/lib/libgdk-win32-2.0.dll.a

got rid of all of the messages except:

> 
> c:/progs/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../libmingw32.a(main.o):main.c:(.text+0xd2):
> undefined reference to `WinMain at 16'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I don't see why these had to be added explicitly, as 
-Lc:/progs/devlibs2/lib was present, as was the
-l for each.

Regards,

David Mathog
mathog at caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech