configure: error: X11 library not found [SOLVED]

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thunor
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configure: error: X11 library not found [SOLVED]

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spongebob[warzone2100-2.3.5]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO Standard C... (cached) -std=gnu99
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for bison >= 1.31... found 2.1, ok
checking for flex... flex
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking lex library... -lfl
checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
checking for flex >= 2.5.33... found 2.5.33, ok
checking for flex != 2.5.34... not found, good
checking whether perl executable path has been provided... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
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checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
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checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
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checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for pkg-config >= 0.9... found 0.21, ok
checking whether to build NSIS installer... no
checking whether to compile in debug mode... no
checking whether the C compiler accepts the -Werror -Wno-switch flag... yes
checking whether the C compiler accepts the -Werror -Wno-enum-compare flag... nochecking for SDL... yes
checking for PNG... yes
checking for THEORA... yes
checking for OPENAL... yes
checking for OGGVORBIS... yes
checking for GLee... no
checking for GLee.h...
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checking GLee.h usability... yes
checking GLee.h presence... yes
checking for GLee.h... yes
checking for GLeeInit in -lGLee... yes
checking for nearbyint in -lm... yes
checking for XSetSelectionOwner in -lX11... no
configure: error: X11 library not found
spongebob[warzone2100-2.3.5]$
Hi

I changed to /usr and executed "grep -nR XSetSelectionOwner ." and found "./include/X11/Xlib.h:3295:extern int XSetSelectionOwner(". The fact that it says extern means that it's defined somewhere else (right?) and I haven't found it anywhere else within /usr/X11/ except within binaries, so I'm guessing I'm missing a header, but which one?

Linux 2.6.17.11
PIII 866MHz
gcc version 3.4.6
X Window System Version 6.9.0
NVIDIA Driver Version: 190.53
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 512MB

Please help :)
Last edited by thunor on 12 Oct 2010, 21:39, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: configure: error: X11 library not found

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Did you install the development packages? With Linux, to compile programs that depend on a given package 'foo', you need to install the foo-dev or foo-devel package (name depending on your package manager)
thunor
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Re: configure: error: X11 library not found

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stiv wrote:Did you install the development packages? With Linux, to compile programs that depend on a given package 'foo', you need to install the foo-dev or foo-devel package (name depending on your package manager)
Yes. I've dumped the package contents below (edited since it was too big).

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PACKAGE NAME:     x11-devel-6.9.0-i486-10
COMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE:     4999 K
UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE:     14950 K
PACKAGE LOCATION: /var/log/mount/zenwalk/x/x11-devel-6.9.0-i486-10.tgz
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
x11-devel: x11-devel (Libraries and other files for X programming)
x11-devel:
x11-devel: This is a set of include files (found in /usr/X11R6/include), static
x11-devel: libraries (found in /usr/X11R6/lib/*.a) and configuration files
x11-devel: (found in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/) needed to compile X programs.
x11-devel:
FILE LIST:
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usr/X11R6/lib/libXdmcp.a
...
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usr/X11R6/include/GL/glxproto.h
usr/X11R6/include/GL/glxext.h
usr/X11R6/include/GL/glxint.h
usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h
usr/X11R6/include/GL/glxmd.h
usr/X11R6/include/GL/GLwMDrawAP.h
usr/X11R6/include/GL/GLwDrawA.h
usr/X11R6/include/X11/
usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM/
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Re: configure: error: X11 library not found

Post by thunor »

I found this in config.log which might help:

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configure:10133: checking for XSetSelectionOwner in -lX11
configure:10158: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest   -rdynamic  conftest.c -lX11   >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/3.4.6/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:10158: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "Warzone 2100"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "warzone2100"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.3.5"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "Warzone 2100 2.3.5"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "http://wz2100.net/"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "warzone2100"
| #define VERSION "2.3.5"
| #define YYTEXT_POINTER 1
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
| #define _ALL_SOURCE 1
| #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
| #define _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 1
| #define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1
| #define HAVE_ALLOCA_H 1
| #define ENABLE_NLS 1
| #define HAVE_GETTEXT 1
| #define HAVE_DCGETTEXT 1
| #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
| #define PACKAGE_DISTRIBUTOR "UNKNOWN"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| /* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
|    Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
|    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C"
| #endif
| char XSetSelectionOwner ();
| int
| main ()
| {
| return XSetSelectionOwner ();
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:10167: result: no
configure:10173: error: X11 library not found
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Re: configure: error: X11 library not found

Post by thunor »

Digging through the Warzone2100 source I found that scrap.c:358 was the only reference to XSetSelectionOwner:

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if ( lost_scrap() )
	XSetSelectionOwner(SDL_Display, XA_PRIMARY, SDL_Window, CurrentTime);
That's it.

Interestingly (maybe this means something) I can't find any reference to Xlib.h within the Warzone2100 source, or anything like "include <X" except something to do with x-motif-messagebox. So where's XSetSelectionOwner being included from?
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Re: configure: error: X11 library not found

Post by Buginator »

What distro do you got ?
That is mainly used for clipboard (ab)using. You can comment that routine out, and game will still work fine.
and it ends here.
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Re: configure: error: X11 library not found [SOLVED]

Post by thunor »

I'm using Zenwalk 3.0; yeah it's getting on a bit now but I install lots of stuff and I use it for handheld development.

I hacked the configure script to always return "yes" when checking for XSetSelectionOwner and then I got a clue as to why it wasn't working. configure found /usr/lib/libGL but not /usr/X11/lib/libGLU, so I removed my hack and then exported LDFLAGS=-L/usr/X11/lib and then configure worked!

I got a message about my version of Perl being a bit old at the end of configure, but I hacked the script so that it accepted mine and I've successfully compiled it :)

Thanks for your help.

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mrblobby[warzone2100-2.3.5]$ LDFLAGS=-L/usr/X11/lib
mrblobby[warzone2100-2.3.5]$ export LDFLAGS
mrblobby[warzone2100-2.3.5]$ ./configure --prefix=/home/mrblobby/Games/wz2100
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO Standard C... (cached) -std=gnu99
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for bison >= 1.31... found 2.1, ok
checking for flex... flex
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking lex library... -lfl
checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
checking for flex >= 2.5.33... found 2.5.33, ok
checking for flex != 2.5.34... not found, good
checking whether perl executable path has been provided... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for perl version... 5.8.8
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for zip... zip
checking for unzip... unzip
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checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking for strlcpy... no
checking for strlcat... no
checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -fstack-protector... no
checking whether g++ accepts -fstack-protector... no
checking alloca.h usability... yes
checking alloca.h presence... yes
checking for alloca.h... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for pkg-config >= 0.9... found 0.21, ok
checking whether to build NSIS installer... no
checking whether to compile in debug mode... no
checking whether the C compiler accepts the -Werror -Wno-switch flag... yes
checking whether the C compiler accepts the -Werror -Wno-enum-compare flag... nochecking for SDL... yes
checking for PNG... yes
checking for THEORA... yes
checking for OPENAL... yes
checking for OGGVORBIS... yes
checking for GLee... no
checking for GLee.h...
checking for GLee.h with -I/usr/local/include/GL... yes
checking GLee.h usability... yes
checking GLee.h presence... yes
checking for GLee.h... yes
checking for GLeeInit in -lGLee... yes
checking for nearbyint in -lm... yes
checking for XSetSelectionOwner in -lX11... yes
checking Xm/Xm.h usability... no
checking Xm/Xm.h presence... no
checking for Xm/Xm.h... no
checking for XmCreateErrorDialog in -lXm... no
checking popt.h usability... yes
checking popt.h presence... yes
checking for popt.h... yes
checking for poptGetContext in -lpopt... yes
checking physfs.h usability... yes
checking physfs.h presence... yes
checking for physfs.h... yes
checking for PHYSFS_init in -lphysfs... yes
checking SDL_opengl.h usability... yes
checking SDL_opengl.h presence... yes
checking for SDL_opengl.h... yes
checking for main in -lGL... yes
checking for main in -lGLU... yes
checking GL/glc.h usability... yes
checking GL/glc.h presence... yes
checking for GL/glc.h... yes
checking for main in -lGLC... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating build_tools/Makefile
config.status: creating build_tools/autorevision/Makefile
config.status: creating icons/Makefile
config.status: creating data/Makefile
config.status: creating data/mods/Makefile
config.status: creating data/mods/multiplay/Makefile
config.status: creating data/music/Makefile
config.status: creating pkg/Makefile
config.status: creating pkg/nsis/Makefile
config.status: creating win32/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/framework/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/exceptionhandler/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/gamelib/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/iniparser/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/ivis_opengl/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/ivis_common/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/netplay/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/netplay/miniupnpc/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/script/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/sequence/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/sound/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/widget/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
configure:
configure: WARNING: Distributor unknown!
configure: Use --with-distributor when compiling package for distribution
configure:
configure: WARNING: Perl >= 5.10 isn't installed, autogeneration of some sources will not work.
mrblobby[warzone2100-2.3.5]$