Re: [XForms] Why does gcc not find the forms library?

[Peter Rowat]

Thank you all for your suggestions. I had already used the -I option to locate 
header files, and I used absolute not relative path for -L.  I will try them 
out tomorrow, as I had minor fall off my bike on way home for lunch! (May have 
injured shoulder). The guide states that the Xpm library is named libforms??
Best,

Peter R
> On Oct 12, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Bill Unruh <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Peter Rowat wrote:
>> 
>> On OS X, I’ve installed XForms and compiled the demos and they all work. But 
>> trying to compile the
>> simplest program directly, e.g.
>> gcc -o pshme pshme.c -lforms 
>> fails with "ld: library not found for -lforms”
>> Same happens if I tell gcc where to look:
>> gcc -o pshme pshme.c -L/….../xforms-1.2.4/lib -lforms
> 
> Where IS your forms library. It is certainly not what -L says above. Try 
> putting in the full path name instead of a relative path name.
> 
> the library  is called libforms.so and that is what the -lforms looks for. 
> Where is your libforms.so ?
> 
>> ls lib/*forms*
>> lib/forms.c lib/forms.lo lib/forms.o lib/libforms.la lib/xforms.5 
>> lib/xforms.man
> 
> Nope none of those. Maybe you do not have the libforms library istalled?
>> No doubt it is something very trivial, but I’ve spent a long time trying to 
>> fix this.
>> Peter R