Cross Compiling Raytrace benchmark using X11

[ef]

Hello,
You were correct, problem fixed. Static Libraries are being used
because the simulator I am using (M5) does not support shared
libraries.

Thanks,
EF

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Alan
Coopersmith<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
> ef wrote:
>> While compiling I am linking to the following libs with Raytrace:
>>  -lX11 -lGL -lGLU -lXext -lXau
>>
>> It is important to note that I made these static libaries on my
>> machine, downloading the source code from the X11 Website.
>
> When static linking, order is very very very important.   -lX11 needs to
> be moved after -lXext so that the dependencies from libXext are known about
> when the linker is reading in libX11 and deciding what part of the static
> library it needs to copy into your binary.
>
> (Not having to worry about this is just one of the many reasons that
>  shared libraries are much better than static linking.)
>
> --
>        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
>