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RE: regarding about i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:39:15 -0000
- Subject: RE: regarding about i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> -----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
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