Coding a simple GTK GUI on windows in C with eclipse - c

Question

My problem seems quite simple: I would like to be able to create a simple program with a simple GUI for windows in C (and if possible on windows).
My current environment is eclipse IDE, msys2 with mingw64 toolchain all on windows 10.
I would like to use pkg-config with eclipse to avoid "hard-coding" all my libraries, and for that I first tried the pkg-config plugin for eclipse (it crashes when I create a new project, null pointer exception). I then tried to insert the pkg-config command inside the call to GCC. For that I had to use powershell because cmd do not allow it.
But even on powershell, i'm not able to use it because the string that pkg-config returns me is considered by gcc as a command.
Here is what eclipse uses to compile:
powershell gcc -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 --std=c99 $(pkg-config-win --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0) -o main.o "..\\main.c"
And here is what it returns me:
gcc.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-mms-bitfields -pthread -mms-bitfields -IC:/msys64/mingw64/include/gtk-3.0 [...]'
I then tried to remove the --cflags of pkg-config:
Command used by eclipse:
powershell gcc $(pkg-config-win --libs gtk+-3.0) -o Test.exe main.o -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lgdi32 -limm32 -lshell32 -lole32 -lwinmm -ldwmapi -lz -lpangowin32-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl
And here is the result (8 times the same line).
gcc.exe: error: .0: No such file or directory
I tried dozens of different things but none of them works.
So my main questions are:
Is there a simple way to solve this problem?
Do I do the right things (is eclipse made to be able to do such things?)
If not, what should I do? (Change IDE? Change GUI library, ...)
I hope that you will be able to help me, I am very open about the possibilities that you might give. Please excuse me if I was unclear on some points or do not give enough informations, I will reply as soon as possible to your questions :p

Answer 1

So my main questions are:
1.Is there a simple way to solve this problem?
Yes,
While this is an old question, it deserves an answer. The problem as correctly noted in the comments is the output of $(pkg-config-win --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0) is returned as one long string and gcc doesn't recognize it. To solve the problem you can simply assign the output of pkg-config as an array and use the array variable with gcc, e.g.
PS> [string[]] $cflags = $(pkg-config-win --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0)
PS> gcc -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 --std=c99 $cflags -o main.o ..\main.c
gcc will then see each option contained in $cflags as an individual argument (an quoting is automatically handled so embedded '-' and '.' do not cause problems in powershell)