regarding about i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
Dave Korn
dk@artimi.com
Thu Jan 22 20:29:00 GMT 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of fai choy
> I ran 'make' on my cygwin to compile one of my c program and got into
> the 'cannot find -lX11' error. I searched the cygwin archives
> and found
> Corinna's reply to someone running into the same problem back in Sep
> 2003. The solution was to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to look for the
> libX11 files. Thus I added my own CYGWIN_LIBX11 path to my .bashrc as
> such:
>
> export CYGWIN_LIBX11=/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib
That looks wrong to me. Most people would have those files in
/usr/X11R6/lib. Most people don't even have a directory called 'cygwin' in
the root folder of their cygwin install. I think you meant to say
> export CYGWIN_LIBX11=/usr/X11R6/lib
and you got a bit mixed up.
cheers,
DaveK
--
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
More information about the Cygwin
mailing list