Re: Linking Errors related to X11

["Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 3/22/2012 10:33 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 07:04:54PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
> > On 3/21/2012 6:19 PM, Tom Szczesny wrote:
> > > I am attempting to port the aplus-fsf-4.22 package (available at
> > > www.aplusdev.org) to cygwin,
> > > and I'm getting linking errors related to X11.
> > >
> > > I can build the package successfully on Gentoo Linux.
> > >
> > > The build on cygwin fails at   /aplus-fsf-4.22/src/main/aplus-main.c
> > > with many error messages related to X11, such as
> > >       undefined reference to '_XWarpPointer'.
> > >
> > > The Makefile.in contains the lines:
> > >      X_INCLUDES = @X_INCLUDES@
> > >      X_LIBS = @X_LIBS@
> > >
> > > which got translated (in the Makefile) to:
> > >      X_INCLUDES = -I
> > >      X_LIBS = -L -lX11
> > >
> > > While this works when building in Gentoo Linux, it does not appear to
> > > be correct for cygwin.
> > > What is the correct specification when building the package in cygwin?
>
> [I thought this was already answered in the cygwin list]

Me too. ;-)

> > Try these:
> >
> > X_INCLUDES = /usr/include
> > X_LIBS = -L /usr/include -lX11
> >
> > You can also override the faulty configure script values and point
> > directly at these paths with the -x-includes and -x-libraries
> > flags.
>
> The -L part is not right, Larry.  If anything, it should be -L /usr/lib
> but there's no need for that since /usr/lib is searched by default.  So
> both the -L and the -I should just be deleted.

Ugh.  Cut and paste error.  Thanks for the correction.


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Larry

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