On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> I am trying to compile a simple X application but I > keep getting the folloeing error: > > gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11 > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries called > under Linux. Thanks. > > -D > xlib6g installs its libraries under /usr/X11R6/lib/ (try dpkg --largemem -L xlib6g) and are trying to have names compatible with all other distributions. I think the problem is that xlib6g does not make /usr/lib/X11 to be a symlink to /usr/lib/X11R6 where ld likes to look for the libraries. Either make the symlink, or give ld (gcc will pass appropriate arguments to ld) a "-L/usr/X11R6/lib" switch. This is for now, Pavel M. Penev
