I have downloaded the latest GLUI source code and now I am trying to compile it. When I do so, I get the following error:
g++ -O0 -Wall -pedantic -I./ -I./include -I/usr/X11R6/include -o bin/example1 example/example1.cpp -L./lib -lglui -L/usr/X11R6/lib/libXdmcp.a -lglut -lGLU -lGL -lXmu -lXext -lX11 -lXi -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXmu
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
When I did a locate libXmu
, I get the following output:
> %:~/src/GLUI/src$ locate libXmu
> /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6
> /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6.2.0
> /usr/lib/libXmuu.so.1
> /usr/lib/libXmuu.so.1.0.0
Do I get the error because I don't have a /usr/lib/libXmu.so? If this is the case, how can I make one? (I am not experienced with linking at all).
Thanks!
Linux distributions usually package the libraries needed for running programs separately from the files needed to build programs.
Look for packages named *-devel or *-dev.
I don't know which one you need in particular for this, but you can use apt-cache search to look for it.
The answer was actually one of the first ones here originally but the owner deleted it, it seems. I was able to solve the problem by creating a symbolic link to the latest version of the library (i.e. /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6
) and compile the code successfully.
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