Re: XForms: startup problems

Robert S. Mallozzi (mallors@crazyhorse.msfc.nasa.gov)
Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:13:10 -0500 (CDT)

To subscribers of the xforms list from "Robert S. Mallozzi" <mallors@crazyhorse.msfc.nasa.gov> :

On 15 Sep, belcherr@VNET.IBM.COM wrote:
> To subscribers of the xforms list from <belcherr@VNET.IBM.COM> (Ronald G. Belcher) :
>
> Xforms newbie, here.
>
> Install seemed to go okay, demo builds okay, but problems trying to run.
>
> 1) When in the DEMOS directory, "./demo" brings up the first menu and I
> select any one of the buttons.
> None of the buttons on the next menu do anything, and there are messages
> in the log file complaining that it can't find the xxx command.
>
> 2) When in the xforms directory, "./DEMOS/demo" won't run at all, saying
> it can't find the menu file.
>
> 3) "gcc -lX11 -lforms -lm xhello.c -o xhello" gets a message from ld that
> it can't open -lX11. This is the program from the LJ article.
>
> I am running on RedHat 4.2 from an xterm in the X window.
>
> Anybody have any clue what I am doing wrong here? Where to look?
>
> Anybody know how to find out what library path my linker is searching?
>

Go to the DEMOS directory, and make sure "." is in your path. Then
./demo should run Ok.

-bob

-- 
Dr. Robert S. Mallozzi
University of Alabama in Huntsville
http://cspar.uah.edu/~mallozzir/

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