openbox-3.2

Kevin Van Workum vanw@usna.edu
Thu Dec 9 14:35:00 GMT 2004


Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Kevin Van Workum wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone out there compiled openbox-3.2 on cygwin? It worked until the
>> final step. Below is the command that it failed on and a couple of the
>> error messages. It looks like it's not finding the right libraries, but
>> I don't know for sure since I'm not an expert on X11.
>>
>> --make output--
>> ....
>> /home/vanw/openbox-3.2/render/render.c:53: undefined reference to
>> `_XCreatePixmap'
> 
> 
> Try to find the library where the reference points to, e.g.:
> $ cd /usr/X11R6/lib ; grep -r _XCreatePixmap *
> 
> If it is there, see if this lib is on your linkline, if not then add it,
> if it is already there try to change the order of the libraries or add
> the relevant lib at the end of the link command a second time.
> 
> Gerrit

Got it. The problem was the order of the libraries. Below are the 
changes I made to the makefile to get it to compile.

$ diff Makefile Makefile.orig
81c81
< LIBS = -lX11 -lXft -lglib-2.0 -lxml2
---
 > LIBS =

Kevin



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