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From:	"Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: regarding about i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:39:15 -0000
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X-OriginalArrivalTime:	22 Jan 2004 18:39:15.0173 (UTC) FILETIME=[0938F150:01C3E117]

 

> -----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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