Re: [Plib-users] Cannot open -lX11 at compile

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Simon Foster wrote:
> 
> I have tried to compile plib under SuSE Linux, and
> after numerous problems I finally managed to get the
> thing to start compiling. It gets to where is compiles
> the js example and then bails out with "Cannot open
> -lX11, although I'm sure the library exists in
> /usr/X11R6/lib. Why can't it find it?

I develop using SuSE Linux - so you really shouldn't have any
problems if you have SuSE set up correctly.

I have libX11 in these locations (according to 'find'):

/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1

What *might* be wrong is something like a missing symlink
that SuSE should have installed... eg: /usr/X11 links to
/usr/X11R6

...but you say that you had 'numerous problems' and that
you 'got around' them.  This says to me that you have some
serious mis-install problems.

One common error is to fail to ask SuSE's YAST program to
install the X11 development package.  I did this on my laptop
a couple of weeks ago (thinking that this was the package for
developing X windows rather than the package for compiling
programs that use X).  For some insane reason, this is not
the default (grrrrr).

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