Hi axel, you can find all the informations here: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/wiki/BuildingShoes
you can find all teh needed packages there. just do make instead of rake at the end. regards, Emanuel On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Axel Etzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > when trying to install either Shoes directly from source or distributing a > Shoes application on kubuntu 8.04, > I get the following error: > > shoes build options: > CC = cc > RUBY = /usr/local > OPTIONS = > ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i686-linux] > CC -o dist/libshoes.so > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lruby > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [dist/libshoes.so] Error 1 > > This is somehow due to the fact that there's no ruby-dev library, only a > ruby1.8-dev available on kubuntu, and the Ruby call of Config from the > Makefile of Shoes cannot recognize this. How can I overcome this problem > (not only, but also on other people's computers) ? > > Thank you very much, > > Best regards, > > Axel >
