Newbie request - compiling with Xlib.h

[M. Warner Losh]

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, so then you change
the X11R6 above to local.

Warner