Newbie request - compiling with Xlib.h

[Jona Joachim]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:12:23 -0700 (MST)
"M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> In message:
> <8b4c81f0612161943g2cef8374p91445780389e7f88 at mail.gmail.com> "Henry
> Lenzi" <henry.lenzi at gmail.com> writes: : Hi *
> : 
> : I'm trying to follow the following tutorial for Xlib prpogramming:
> : 
> :
> http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/xlib-programming/xlib-programming.html#preface : 
> : However, I can't seem to compile the simple-drawing.c example. I
> keep getting : 
> : 
> : > cc simple-drawing.c  -o simple-drawing -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11
> : simple-drawing.c:7:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
> : 
> : or
> : 
> : > cc simple-drawing.c -o simple-drawing -lX11
> : simple-drawing.c:7:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
> : 
> : What's the right incantation for this?
> 
> /usr/X11R6 is where X is installed, so you need -I/usr/X11R6/include
> for compile and -L/usr/X11R6/lib for link (in addition to the -lX11,
> et al).
> 
> In the future it will be installed in /usr/local

Looking forward to that day :)

Jona