Re: Mrxvt requires the X Window System libraries and headers.

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

bin wang wrote:
> Hi
>
> I try to install mrxvt from source code into cygwin. When I ./configure, 
> I have the following errors in the config.log.
>
> configure:3653: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
> conftest.c:2: error: parse error before "me"
> configure:3659: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | #ifndef __cplusplus
> |   choke me
> | #endif
> configure:3803: checking for style of include used by make
> configure:3831: result: none
> configure:3859: checking dependency style of gcc
> configure:3949: result: none
> configure:3969: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
> configure:3993: result: no
> configure:4011: checking for a BSD-compatible install
> configure:4066: result: /usr/bin/install -c
> configure:4242: checking how to run the C preprocessor
> configure:4277: gcc -E  conftest.c
> configure:4283: $? = 0
> configure:4315: gcc -E  conftest.c
> conftest.c :51:28: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
> configure:4321: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> ....
>
> configure:4472: checking for X
> configure:4577: gcc -E  conftest.c
> configure:4583: $? = 0
> configure:4633: gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -Wall -fPIC   conftest.c 
> -lXt  >&5
> conftest.c:1: warning: -fPIC ignored for target (all code is position 
> independent)
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
> cannot find -lXt
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure:4639: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> |
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "mrxvt"
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "mrxvt"
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.4.2"
> .....
> configure:4692: result: no
> configure:4707: error: Mrxvt requires the X Window System libraries and 
> headers.
>
> I also add this environment variables.
> export CYGWIN_LIBX11=/usr/X11R6/lib
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib
> :$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> But it still doesn't work. What's the problem?


Perhaps you didn't install the xorg-x11-devel package?  Kind of hard to tell
without the information requested in the problem reporting guidelines:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


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