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arereal2 · Xplorer Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 22

Hi, I'm trying to build kchmviewer and am getting this error.

usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext

I've done a lot of googling for this error and it would seem I have all of the correct libs installed. I also found the library in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so (and so.6, so.6.4)

Can anybody help?

Cheers!

-J

Chaotic Thought · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject:

Please post the output of 'make' at least a page of output where the error occurs. I need to see commands were given like gcc ...

Andrew · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject:

you need to install
xlibs-dev
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arereal2 · Xplorer Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 22

Hi Andrew, I already have xlibs-dev installed.

Chaotic_Thought, here's the output...

arereal2 · Xplorer Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 22

I figured the output from ./configure may also prove useful...

Arne Anka · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject:

The check above indicates you have the library in question. Just to be sure, check if /etc/ld.so.conf has /usr/X11R6/lib included (it should have).

arereal2 · Xplorer Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 22

Hi Arne,

yes it does, the exact contents are...

Chaotic Thought · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject:

I think the problem is that your program is trying to build a static library, but to do that you need a static libXext (usually named with an .a extension), but all you have is libXext.so.

You probably can disable this behaviour by going to your toplevel build directory (of kchmviewer), removing config.log and config.status, then re-running ./configure like this:

arereal2 · Xplorer Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 22

Good idea CT, but it's not that.

Could it be something missing from my environment variables?

-J

Chaotic Thought · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject:

Well, I'd say the build process is definitely looking for 'libXext.a' which is a static library. I'm not sure if Xandros's development packages include the static libraries. If they don't, then you won't have any luck with them.

If you want to do it the 'brute force' way you can install this library from some RPM on the Internet. Use version x.org 6.8.2 since that's what Xandros uses. I did a search on rpm.pbone.net and found some that have this. Don't use RPM to extract the files, but do this:

arereal2 · Xplorer Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 22

Thanks for taking the time to help me with this. I tried exactly what you said and I'm getting the exact same linker error. I'm going to continue tinkering and see if I can persuade the linker.

Edit:

Cracked it, I had typed ./configure on a seperate line.

How come having the LDFLAGS="-L${XORG_STATIC}" and ./configure on the same line makes a difference? I'm reasonably new to linux but not to development so little things like this throw me.

Thanks again

-J

Chaotic Thought · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject:

Chaotic Thought · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject:

So the XORG_STATIC thing worked? That's good. By the way, you can remove your XORG_STATIC directory after you've built the software. Static libraries do not need to be kept around after being linked (but shared ones do).

arereal2 · Xplorer Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 22

I figured it may have something to do with scope. What threw me was using export for XORG_STATIC but forgetting to use export for LDFLAGS. I was thinking they're both global, why!? - If I had used export on LDFLAGS it would have worked. But it is handy to know about the variable scope on the same command line, thanks very much for that info.

-J

Chaotic Thought · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject: