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Dear All,
When I am trying to build my application using GTK 3.0 I am facing the following error.
My system has both GTK2.0 and GTK3.0 build environments. The application is building fine for GTK+-2.0.
**************** ERROR************************
Package gtk+-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-3.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-3.0' found
Package gtk+-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-3.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-3.0' found
*****************************************************
Where as if I type the following commands I am getting the response.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
$pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0
-DGSEAL_ENABLE -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng14 -pthread -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
$pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0
-pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng14 -pthread -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
By looking at the response for "pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0" can I believe that GTK+-3.0 is installed? Do I need to update any related package?
Please let me know, why I am getting this error. Also please let me know if any additional information is required to analyze the problem.
Thanks in advance,
RD

Hello and welcome to the GTK+ forums.

Your GTK+-3 package is properly installed, but the errors you're getting suggest that build system of your package fails to do something properly. What are you using for building your package?

Cheers,
Tadej