[Lazarus] Lazarus on Ubuntu: Pixbuf again

[Sven Barth]

Am 17.01.2012 02:17, schrieb waldo kitty:
> On 1/16/2012 02:14, Udav wrote:
>> Guys, thanks for answering! I have had some rest on holidays and ready
>> again
>> to fight the problems :)
>>
>> Reimar Grabowski wrote
>>>
>>> But there is libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 and of course libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev (at
>>> least on oneiric but I am quite sure that it was on lucid, too)
>>> R.
>>>
>> Well, I have to admit that was partly a false panic. Just now I checked
>> again and to my surprise found libgdk-pixbuf2.0 in the package manager. I
>> guess it was Friday,13 that played this evil joke to me.
>> So I installed it and I got error "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find
>> -lgtk-x11-2.0"
>> when linking examples. Googled for it but found nothing useful (I
>> alreay had
>> libgtk2.0 installed). By intuition I installed libgtk2.0-dev (the )
>> and then
>> finally got things working.
>
> yeah, that's the funny thing about *nix stuff... if you need to use
> something in a program you are writing, having the package installed
> only allows you to use it in the programs that are /already/ compiled
> and "installed"... you always need the -dev package if you want to
> compile something that uses that package... this so all the headers,
> defines and whatnot can be handled ;)

You are not entirely right: this isn't the funny thing about *nix stuff, 
but about systems like Ubuntu and Debian. Distributions like ArchLinux 
don't have this distinction and if you install the package for a library 
you're ready to go developing with it as well. :)

Regards,
Sven