Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:12:19 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding libraries to link with and autoconf resources? Message-ID: <17870.42419.779434.735451@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <45CE8BEC.7050404@u.washington.edu> References: <45CE8BEC.7050404@u.washington.edu>
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In <45CE8BEC.7050404@u.washington.edu>, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> typed:
> Hello,
> This is my first attempt at porting an application, so please bear with me.
> I'm trying to port tvtime from Linux to FreeBSD and it's failing during
> the configure stage (claims it can't find -lpng when running a link
> test). I know I should probably use the Linux libpng library but I'm
> trying to make the application as native as possible with FreeBSD.
> Anyhow though, I was wondering what directories I should typically
> search when using -L for searching for the png libraries, for instance
> (/usr/lib.. ?).
libpng isn't part of the base system, it's in the ports tree in
graphics/png. Assuming you've got that installed, then use
$LOCALBASE/bin/libpng-config to get the appropriate options.
If you're creating a port, add "png.5:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/png" to
LIB_DEPENDS.
<mike
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