Re: XForms: I can't compile

Kees Lemmens (lemmens@dv.twi.tudelft.nl)
Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:08:31 +0100 (MET)

To subscribers of the xforms list from Kees Lemmens <lemmens@dv.twi.tudelft.nl> :

Hi,

>
> To subscribers of the xforms list from Miguel Monteiro de Sousa Frade <mfrade@alumni.dee.uc.pt> :
>
>
> Hi,
> I got the xforms library from one of the mirror sites (bxform-088.tgz,
> 584486 bytes, a.out format) for linux. I instaled it plus the xpm library
> and I tried to
> compile the exemples programms, but I got this message for all the xforms
> functions:
>
> freedraw.o(.text+0x15): undefined reference to `fl_initialize'
> ...
>
> I tried many ways to compile, but the message is allaws the same. My
> system is:
> Linux 2.0.30 #6 Thu Dec 18 18:36:31 WET 1997 i586 unknown
>
> Can anyone tell me what should I do?
>
> Thanks,
> Miguel Frade
>

You're using a quite new Linux and a very old style library : a.out !!
Did you try with the "ELF" libraries instead ? New linuxes only use ELF
format not a.out.

regards,

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