Hello World: Error

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Mon Apr 23 15:03:49 PDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 14:13 -0700, Jerrold Clint Balansi wrote: 
> Hi Julien,
> I'm sorry that I'm pretty much new in to this Xlib programming, how
> exactly can I do that?

gcc -o HelloX HelloX.c -lX11

> Thank you for your help.
> 
> -jerrold
> 
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>
> wrote:
>         On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 13:55:34 -0700, Jerrold Clint Balansi
>         wrote:
>         
>         > Hello,
>         >
>         > I am trying to make a Hello World program from code from
>         this site:
>         > http://www.paulgriffiths.net/program/c/srcs/helloxsrc.html
>         >
>         > However, when I try to compile and run it I get this error.
>         Can some give
>         > me a hint. Thank you.
>         >
>         > [root at vizwall Desktop]# gcc -o HelloX HelloX.c
>         > > /tmp/ccMGGmGj.o: In function `main':
>         > > HelloX.c:(.text+0x42): undefined reference to
>         `XAllocSizeHints'
>         
>         
>         You need to link with -lX11.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Julien 
> 
> 


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Sérgio M. B.





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