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Gaetano Di Stefano

hello,
i am a newbie and tryng unsuccesfully to compile and run xforms example getting only this message:
....
Compiling pushme.pp
Linking ./pushme
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lforms

	pushme.pp(16,1) Error: Error while linking
	pushme.pp(16,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
	Fatal: Compilation aborted
	make: *** [pushme] Error 1

....
i am under OpenSuSe 10.2 OS i386 and an ls on /usr/X11R6/lib produces: libfltk.so.1.1
libfltk_forms.so.1.1
libfltk_gl.so.1.1
libfltk_images.so.1.1

but i understood it needs forms.so (or forms.a) i haven't.

What can i do or read to go on?

thanks, Gaetano

Graeme Geldenhuys
to Gaetano Di Stefano

Hi Gaetano,

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i am a newbie and tryng unsuccesfully to compile and run xforms example getting only this message: .... Compiling pushme.pp Linking ./pushme /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lforms pushme.pp(16,1) Error: Error while linking pushme.pp(16,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted make: *** [pushme] Error 1

After reading your email, I tried that same example and also couldn't manage to link it either. I didn't actually know "xforms" links to FLTK toolkit — I thought there was a toolkit called XForms. :-)

I'm not sure what you are trying to do or write. But if you are looking for a cross platform toolkit, you can give fpGUI Toolkit a go. It currently supports Linux, *BSD (FreeBSD, DesktopBSD etc) and Windows. It also compiles with 32bit and 64bit FPC compilers.

You can find more information on the website:
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Another alternative is MSEgui.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Marc Santhoff
to Graeme Geldenhuys
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 16 lines
Hi Gaetano, > i am a newbie and tryng unsuccesfully to compile and run xforms example > getting only this message: > .... > Compiling pushme.pp > Linking ./pushme > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lforms > pushme.pp(16,1) Error: Error while linking > pushme.pp(16,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping > Fatal: Compilation aborted > make: *** [pushme] Error 1 After reading your email, I tried that same example and also couldn't manage to link it either. I didn't actually know "xforms" links to FLTK toolkit — I thought there was a toolkit called XForms. :-)

You are right, FLTK is a different toolkit. There actually is a toolkit called XForms:

http://bloch.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms

I didn't try the links, but I have been using XForms long ago.

HTH,
Marc

ik
to Gaetano Di Stefano: i am a newbie and tryng unsuccesfully to compile and run xforms example getting only this…

Does the library shown when you write
ldconfig -v

If so, then see if there is an attempt to call a full library name or just the name prior to the .so extension.

Ido

Gaetano Di Stefano wrote 28 lines
hello, i am a newbie and tryng unsuccesfully to compile and run xforms example getting only this message: .... Compiling pushme.pp Linking ./pushme /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lforms pushme.pp(16,1) Error: Error while linking pushme.pp(16,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted make: *** [pushme] Error 1 .... i am under OpenSuSe 10.2 OS i386 and an ls on /usr/X11R6/lib produces: libfltk.so.1.1 libfltk_forms.so.1.1 libfltk_gl.so.1.1 libfltk_images.so.1.1 but i understood it needs forms.so (or forms.a) i haven't. What can i do or read to go on? thanks, Gaetano -- _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
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Gaetano Di Stefano

Alle 12:00, lunedì 22 settembre 2008,
ha scritto:

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Does the library shown when you write ldconfig -v If so, then see if there is an attempt to call a full library name or just the name prior to the .so extension. Ido

ldconfig -v
/usr/X11R6/lib:
libfltk.so.1.1 -> libfltk.so.1.1
libfltk_gl.so.1.1 -> libfltk_gl.so.1.1
libfltk_forms.so.1.1 -> libfltk_forms.so.1.1
libfltk_images.so.1.1 -> libfltk_images.so.1.1
/usr/local/lib:
... ... ...
no xforms in the rest of listing

Gaetano
Graeme Geldenhuys
to Gaetano Di Stefano
Gaetano Di Stefano wrote 10 lines
ldconfig -v /usr/X11R6/lib: libfltk.so.1.1 -> libfltk.so.1.1 libfltk_gl.so.1.1 -> libfltk_gl.so.1.1 libfltk_forms.so.1.1 -> libfltk_forms.so.1.1 libfltk_images.so.1.1 -> libfltk_images.so.1.1 /usr/local/lib: ... ... ... no xforms in the rest of listing

I use Ubuntu 7.10 (x86)

I did a quick search in the Ubuntu packages. Under Ubuntu (and Debian I guess), you need to install a few required packages to get the XForms demos to compile and link. The are some of the packages, which allowed me to successfully compile and link all the XForms demos.

The binary XForms library (required)
http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/libforms1

The development headers for the XForms library (required) http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/libforms-dev

A visual forms designer for XForms (optional)
http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/libforms-bin

I hope this helps. Maybe this information needs could be added in a readme file in the 'xforms' directory of FPC?

Regards,
- Graeme -

_______________________________________________
fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/