On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 04:24:12PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > Greetings folks! [Apologies for not returning after winter break; my > senior project is taking too much of time.] > > I am trying to compile plex86 on my Debian unstable system with XFree86 > 4.0.2-7, kernel 2.4.2 SMP (on dual celerons), glibc 2.2.2-1. I get an > error message saying it cannot find libX11 [1]. > > I asked on the plex86 list if I was missing an obvious library since I > thought I had all the right packages installed. I think the xlibs-dev > package is missing some required header files: specifically, libX11.h. > $ dpkg -L xlibs-dev | grep -i libx11 > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so > > Shouldn't there be some header files included with this package? If I > missed a package, could someone swing the clue-bat this direction and > help me out? Thanks. :) > <SNIP compile--error>
Try <X11/X.h> for your header that most X apps will need. You'll likely need to add the following to your $(CC) line: -I/usr/X11R6/include and this to your LDFLAGS and/or $(LINK) line: -L/usr/X11R6/lib/ HTH Gordon Sadler
