[Sussex] ./confgure help - cross compiling GTK

[Clive Chapman]

Hi Colin - thanks for the reply

I'm pretty new to compiling using ./configure.

So do I need to add more parameters tothe command line - assuming I can fin 
the -dev lib.

Thanks again

Clive

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Tuckley" <colin at tuckley.org>
To: <anbeyon at btinternet.com>; "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" 
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] ./confgure help - cross compiling GTK


> anbeyon at btinternet.com wrote:
>
>> but failing miserably :0(
>
>> When I check the config.log file is says part way through the following;
>
>> It can;t find the libc library - it's looking in the wrong place I think 
>> !
>
> You are mixing up the XXX library that is used by the application when it
> runs and the XXX-dev library that is required to build the application. 
> They
> are two different things.
>
> The first is almost always installed on all systems, the second is only
> needed on systems where you *build* apps and is therefore NOT normally
> installed.
>
>> configure:2894: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>
> This is a dead giveaway that the -dev libs are missing
>
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