Re: [Ftgl-devel] Errors when including ftgl

[Thomas L. W. <mr...@gm...>]

That helped. Thanks :)

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Sam Hocevar <sa...@ho...> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010, Thomas Larsen Wessel wrote:
> > I have installed ftgl via. aptitude on ubuntu (sudo aptitude install
> > libftgl-dev).
> >
> > My simplest imaginable program pure.cpp looks like this:
> >
> > *//pure.cpp
> > #include <FTGL/ftgl.h>
> > main() {}*
> >
> > When trying to compile I write:
> >
> > *$ g++ test.cpp -lftgl*
>
>   The compiler is missing important information here. The generic way
> to give library information to the compiler is through pkg-config:
>
>     g++ test.cpp `pkg-config --cflags --libs ftgl`
>
>   Or when separating the compilation and link steps:
>
>     g++ -c test.cpp `pkg-config --cflags ftgl`
>     g++ test.o `pkg-config --libs ftgl`
>
> Hope this lets you go on,
> --
> Sam.
>