Ubuntu – use a C/C++ compiler

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I shifted to Ubuntu 10.10 now I am facing problem to have C/C++ compiler. What are the possible ways so that I can use C/C++ compiler using all the libraries (like graphic, math, conio, stdlib, etc) as in Microsoft Windows creating executable file?

Best Answer

Ubuntu provides the standard Gnu Compiler Collection in the repositories.

You can install the Gnu C Compiler gcc as well as the Gnu C++ compiler g++ with the following command:

sudo apt-get install gcc g++

You'll probably also want to install libc6-dev (which includes the C standard library) and libstdc++6-4.5-dev (which includes the standard C++ libraries).

If you're looking for something comparable to Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler, try taking a look at Qt - specifically Qt Creator . It's a full-fledged IDE with a visual form designer, code-editor, and debugger.

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Edit:
Now that it's clear what you mean by "perfectly as in Microsoft windows?", then Qt Creator (which I mentioned above) will be perfect for your needs. You won't need to use the console to compile your applications and the Qt framework is easy to learn and use.

There's a great tutorial for getting started with Qt here.

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Ubuntu – Building a 32-bit app in 64-bit Ubuntu

LDFLAGS should include -m32 as well. Following should work:

export LDFLAGS='-m32 -L/usr/lib32'

In fact, you can drop -L/usr/lib32 part, since this is a default directory for 32bit libs, and your system is aware about that.

Basically, the simplest way to build 32bit application on 64bit machine is:

export CFLAGS='-m32'
export CXXFLAGS='-m32'
export LDFLAGS='-m32'
make

..or feed those variables to configure script if you're using autotools.

UPDATE:

Seems like you are not really familiar about the differences in linking with static and dynamic libraries. I'll try to be as minimal as possible:

Both static and dynamic development libraries have the same file extension .a
If you have installed both static and dynamic versions of the same library, one of them might have additional postfix, like libname.a for dynamic and libname_s.a for static version.
Sure, static and dynamic library versions differs in size. Static version is heavier.
If you link with static library - your application has no dependencies. If you link with dynamic library, it will rely on .so runtime library that should be present in your system.

Please note, we are not talking about advanced tricks here, like explicit loading of DSO's using the dlopen()/dlsym() API.

Ubuntu – How to use the GTK+ development libraries in Ubuntu

Advice

First of all, you don't have to settle for no IDE. Install Eclipse, it's available in the Ubuntu Software Centre. You also want to install CDT for Eclipse which gives you C/C++ support. Second I'd very much advise you to focus on C++ and Qt instead of C and GTK. Qt is a great cross-platform framework that uses C++ and QML (a JavaScript-like language for UI), and Ubuntu is moving more and more towards using Qt for their future desktop and mobile development. These tools will allow you not only to create beautiful applications for Ubuntu desktop but also for Android, Windows, Mac, BlackBerry and other OSes. An excellent Qt-specific IDE is QtCreator, also available in the Ubuntu Software Center, you should check it out along some Qt tutorials.

Answer

To answer you question directly, even though I strongly recommend doing what I outlined above, you likely need the -dev versions of the libraries you use. For GTK 3, you likely have to:

sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev

That should get you all GTK 3 headers.