Hello World: Error

[Michal Hejduk]

On Monday 23 of April 2012 14:13:28 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?

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


Compile with:

gcc -lX11 -o HelloX HelloX.c

Nazdar
Michal

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