Linking against libX11

[davidbrit2]

Alright, so I'm trying to build some simple X11 programs. It compiles just fine, but when it hits linking stage, it's can't find the symbols that would be in xlib. However, I see quite a few libX11 files in /usr/X11R6/lib, so I suspect it's not including that in the search path. I also tried adding -lX11 to the gcc command, but no luck. So, what remarkably daft thing have I screwed up this time?

 

[frankf]

Try something like:
gcc code.c -o program -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11

 

[davidbrit2]

There we go, that worked perfectly. But strangely enough, the -I path is optional, but -L is required. Weird. In any case, thanks. Now I can resume testing utterly useless X11 sample code. ;-)