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What do I need to do to link with xlib?

Asked 2009-12-31T01:15:50.853
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I am using GCC, what switches do I need to add to link with Xlib? After searching, all I could find was -lX11, but that gave me ld: library not found for -lX11

I am using a mac (10.6), but I would not like anything that is Mac specific.

c gcc x11 xlib
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$ locate libX11
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.2.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.2.0.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/X11/lib/libX11.dylib
/usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.2.0.dylib
/usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib
/usr/X11/lib/libX11.dylib
/usr/X11/lib/libX11.la

I'd try

gcc [...] -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 [...]

to set the search path for libraries.

answered 2009-12-31T01:20:12.133
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Ubuntu 12.10 (And probably others) require sudo apt-get install libx11-dev.

answered 2012-12-08T20:20:40.690

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