Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:48:46 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Henry Lenzi <henry.lenzi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie request - compiling with Xlib.h Message-ID: <20061217034846.GC43992@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <8b4c81f0612161943g2cef8374p91445780389e7f88@mail.gmail.com> References: <8b4c81f0612161943g2cef8374p91445780389e7f88@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 17), Henry Lenzi said: > I'm trying to follow the following tutorial for Xlib prpogramming: > > http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/xlib-programming/xlib-programming.html#preface > > However, I can't seem to compile the simple-drawing.c example. I keep > getting > > > >cc simple-drawing.c -o simple-drawing -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 > simple-drawing.c:7:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory Note that X is in /usr/X11R6, not /usr/X11, so your link option shoudl read -L/usr/X11R6/lib. You need -I/usr/X11R6/include as well. -I is for headers and is used during the compile step, -L is for libraries and is used during the link step. Your commandline is a direct source-to-executable command, so it requires both. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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