Jim Lesurf, on 8 Sep, wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, tonynjac <[email protected]>
> wrote:

> > The missing component was "build-essential". I stupidly assumed it was
> > already installed, but just checked and realised it wasn't there.
> 
> FWIW I was also initially puzzled by finding that this package was needed
> to produce almost anything with GCC having switched to Xfce Mint 17! I get
> the impression the Mint developers assume most users won't be generating
> or making software.

I just blithely installed 'build-essential' because that had been necessary
in the past. And it works! But one could be more questioning.

Starting with a newly minted Mint xfce, so easy to do as a Virtual Machine,
there is indeed a gcc 4.8.2 already there. Starting an rpcemu 0.8.11 build
./configure indicates "configure: error: C compiler cannot create
executables, See `config.log' for more details", which didn't help much.

Trying to compile a simple "Hello World" failed but that did indicate that
"stdio.h" was missing.

Headers then. All that needs to be installed is 'lib6-dev', which is
included in 'build-essential'.

(This answer might not be totally correct either.)

> Not yet tried my RPCEmu on this distro. To clarify earlier info: Will I
> need to find and install allegro4 for it to run OK? If so is this
> available via the Mint repos and synaptic, or is it a job for apt-get or
> similar?

'liballelegro4-dev' is available from Synaptic.


-- 
David Pitt

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