Compiling GMime Applications: GMime 3.0 Reference Manual

## Compiling GMime Applications Compiling GMime Applications — How to compile your GMime application |

## Compiling GMime Applications on UNIX

To compile a GMime application, you need to tell the compiler where to find the GMime header files and libraries. This is done with the `pkg-config` utility.

The following interactive shell session demonstrates how `pkg-config` is used:

    $ pkg-config --cflags gmime-3.0
     -I/usr/include/gmime-3.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
    $ pkg-config --libs gmime-3.0
     -L/opt/gnome2/lib -lgmime-3.0 -lnsl -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0

The simplest way to compile a program is to use the "backticks" feature of the shell. If you enclose a command in backticks (not single quotes), then its output will be substituted into the command line before execution. So to compile a GTK+ Hello, World, you would type the following:

    $ cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs gmime-3.0` hello.c -o hello