Re: [XForms] Why does gcc not find the forms library?

[Bill Unruh]

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On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Peter Rowat wrote:

> On OS X, I’ve installed XForms and compiled the demos and they all work. But 
> trying to compile the
> simplest program directly, e.g.
>
> gcc -o pshme pshme.c -lforms 
>
> fails with "ld: library not found for -lforms”
> Same happens if I tell gcc where to look:
>
> gcc -o pshme pshme.c -L/….../xforms-1.2.4/lib -lforms

Where IS your forms library. It is certainly not what -L says above. 
Try putting in the full path name instead of a relative path name.

the library  is called libforms.so and that is what the -lforms looks for. 
Where is your libforms.so ?

> ls lib/*forms*
> lib/forms.c lib/forms.lo lib/forms.o lib/libforms.la lib/xforms.5 lib/xforms.man

Nope none of those. 
Maybe you do not have the libforms library istalled?
> No doubt it is something very trivial, but I’ve spent a long time trying to fix 
> this.
>
> Peter R