Re: xforms question

John Prinos (t47851@perf2.dehavilland.ca)
Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:49:26 -0400

To subscribers of the xforms list from "John Prinos" <t47851@perf2.dehavilland.ca> :

On Apr 11, 12:12pm, Udaya A. Ranawake wrote:
> Subject: xforms question
> To subscribers of the xforms list from udaya@neumann.gsfc.nasa.gov (Udaya A.
Ranawake) :
>
>
> I am trying to get xforms running on my laptop that
> has a pentium with LINUX 2.0.27 and XFree86 Version 3.2.
> I tried the version on /pub/xforms/linux/XF2.1. However,
> I get errors when trying to compile the demo routines.
> The linker doesn't seem to recognize the forms library.
> Has anybody else tried this before?
>
> % make demo
> gcc -c -O -I../FORMS demo.c
> gcc -O -s demo.o -o demo -L../FORMS -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lforms -lXpm -lX11
-lm
> demo.o: In function `create_form_form':
> demo.o(.text+0x11): undefined reference to `fl_bgn_form'
> demo.o(.text+0x30): undefined reference to `fl_add_box'
> demo.o(.text+0x3f): undefined reference to `fl_set_object_color'
> demo.o(.text+0x56): undefined reference to `fl_add_box'
> ...
> ...
> ...
>
>
> Please let me know.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Udaya A. Ranawake
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>-- End of excerpt from Udaya A. Ranawake

This happened to me. I think that you got the wrong version of the linux
dostribution (aout vs. ELF).

I downloaded the one I knew I needed and my problems went away.

If I'm inadvertantly 'full of it', please let me know.

Good luck,

J0hn

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John Prinos Performance Engineering Bombardier DeHavilland (416) 375-3574 <jprinos@dehavilland.ca>

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