Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:12:23 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: henry.lenzi@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie request - compiling with Xlib.h Message-ID: <20061218.101223.-1540391409.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <8b4c81f0612161943g2cef8374p91445780389e7f88@mail.gmail.com> References: <8b4c81f0612161943g2cef8374p91445780389e7f88@mail.gmail.com>
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"Henry Lenzi" <henry.lenzi@gmail.com> writes:
: Hi *
:
: 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
:
: or
:
: > cc simple-drawing.c -o simple-drawing -lX11
: simple-drawing.c:7:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
:
: What's the right incantation for this?
/usr/X11R6 is where X is installed, so you need -I/usr/X11R6/include
for compile and -L/usr/X11R6/lib for link (in addition to the -lX11,
et al).
In the future it will be installed in /usr/local, so then you change
the X11R6 above to local.
Warner
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