trying to build against X

[peperami97]

Hi

I have had a nosey round and couldnt find anything appropriate on google.

I am trying to build fluxbox and it comes back during the ./configure
stage saying

'Fluxbox requires the X Window System libraries and headers'

I have tried to install all the packages i can find that seem to
indicate they provide the libraries.

However it hasnt solved the issue.

Could someone point me in the direction of a doc or something to help.

Thanks


Ben Whyte




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[peter360]

I got the same problem building mrxvt.

$ ./configure
...
checking for X... no
configure: error: Mrxvt requires the X Window System libraries and headers.

I read the configure program.  Looks like it is trying to find libXt.{a|so|sl} but failed.  I did find libXt.dll.a in my installation, but not libXt.a.  Are they the same thing?

What do I need to do to get libXt.a?
Peter

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

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peter360 wrote:
> checking for X... no
> configure: error: Mrxvt requires the X Window System libraries and headers.
>
> I read the configure program.  Looks like it is trying to find
> libXt.{a|so|sl} but failed.  I did find libXt.dll.a in my installation, but
> not libXt.a.  Are they the same thing?

No.  libXt.a would be a static library, while libXt.dll.a is an import
library for the shared cygXt-6.dll.

You'll need to patch the configure script to look for
libXt.{a|dll.a|so|sl} instead.


Yaakov
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[peter360]

Thanks for your suggestion.  I patched the configure script to look for libXt.dll.a as well and everything  worked.  I am now running mrxvt. Yeah!
-peter