error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory

mswamy78 · 08-01-2011, 08:14 AM

Hi,
I am trying to compile the code. I am getting this following error. Am I missing any package?

x86_screen.h:12:22: error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
In file included from osal_event.c:12:
x86_screen.h:25: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before âDisplayâ
make[1]: *** [osal_event.o] Error 1

Please help

Thanks,
Swamy

weibullguy · 08-01-2011, 08:43 AM

Most likely. You are missing the development files for libX. Generally the development packages have the same name as the binary package except they will have -dev or -devel appended to them. If you told us what distro you were using, someone could probably tell you exactly which package to install. Or, better yet, how to figure it out on your own.

mswamy78 · 08-02-2011, 01:40 AM

Please let me know how to check which distro I am using. Any command to check?

weibullguy · 08-02-2011, 02:08 AM

What did you install? Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Mint, Gentoo, Slackware, Arch, etc. That's your distro.

mswamy78 · 08-02-2011, 02:35 AM

It is ubuntu 9.02

$ uname -r
2.6.31-203-gee1fdae

knudfl · 08-02-2011, 05:16 AM

" 2.6.31 " : That's Ubuntu 9.10 : The command: 'cat /etc/issue' will show.

9.10 is unsupported, and has been moved to the "Ubuntu museum".

To install packages, you will have to change the URLs in /etc/apt/sources.list

to : http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/
And then : sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libx11-dev

..