Re: problems with libX11.a

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>]

Mark,

Thanks, those instructions work until it gets to the 'nbreaker' demo:

Linking /home/harold/x-devel/ports/MicroWindows/build/src/bin/launcher ...
Updating dependencies in 
/home/harold/x-devel/ports/MicroWindows/build/src/demos
/nbreaker ...
Compiling animate.c ...
In file included from animate.c:41:
nbreaker.h:160: error: syntax error before "GR_PIXMAP_ID"
nbreaker.h:160: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
nbreaker.h:161: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `a'
nbreaker.h:161: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
nbreaker.h:171: error: syntax error before '}' token


Seems that GR_PIXMAP_ID is not defined in the included headers.  Can you 
describe how you worked through this?

Harold

Mark Mussetter wrote:

> Hi Harold,
> 
> Thanks for your help.  We were able to get MicroWindows running after 
> you pointed us in the right direction.  We already had the Xfree86-prog 
> package but you comments about trying to link explicitly to libX11.a led 
> us to the problem.  The following is a clip from Makefile.rules:
> 
> ifeq ($(X11), Y)
> DEFINES += -DX11=1
> ifneq ($(ARCH),CYGWIN)
> # Cygwin can't use this - the -lX11 needs to be specified
> # *after* the object files that use it, but this inserts
> # it at the start.  For Cygwin, we will add libX11.a to the
> # library list instead.
> LDFLAGS += -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
> else
> MW_CORE_LIBS += /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.dll.a
> endif
> ifeq ($(ARCH),FREEBSD-X86)
> INCLUDEDIRS += -I/usr/X11R6/include
> endif
> ifeq ($(ARCH),CYGWIN)
> INCLUDEDIRS += -I/usr/X11R6/include
> endif
> endif
> 
> We changed the 10th line to its current state.  It used to say 
> "MW_CORE_LIBS += /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a"
> 
> Once we made that change everything else fell into place and we were 
> able to run the demos.
> 
> My steps were:
> 1. cd microwin/src
> 
> 2. Typed "cp Configs/config.cygwin config" for the cygwin configuration.
> 
>    See CONTENTS and Configs/README for more information.
> 
> 3. Typed "make"
> 
> 4. Change the Makefile.rules file to link against libX11.dll.a instead 
> of libX11.a
> 
> 5. Typed "make"
> 
> 4. Ran ./demo.sh
> 
> 
> Thanks again for your help,