Compiling help needed

[Merv Curley]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 15:25, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> apt-get install libxext-dev

Since I had all libxext installed I had a suspicioin that the error message 
wasn't telling the truth.  Another user gave me a list of libraries required 
to compile KDE programs.  By the time I installed them and all their 
dependencies I had added some 91 libs.

Now the compile runs the course, and make did its job.   Thanks for the help 
and information you all provided.  Once again an error message didn't tell 
the whole truth.


>
> A good guess for missing library is:
>
> take lib name (like libXext) make it lowercase, and stick -dev at the
> end.  99% of the time it is right.
>
> Otherwise try: apt-cache search libxext and see which packages it lists
> with -dev in the name.  To compile code you need the headers, while to
> run programs you only need the library, so the library is in the libname
> package usually and the headers are in the libname-dev in general.
> Sometimes the library itself has an abi version attached to the name (if
> it is C++) so it could be libnamec2 or libnamec2a or libnamec102 or
> something like that.
>
> Len Sorensen
> --

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Merv Curley
Toronto, Ont. Can

Kanotix Linux  Ver 2005-4   
Desktop  KDE 3.5.1    KMail 1.2



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