[lazarus] Newbie - Compilation problem

[Peter Vreman]

> I did't have the gdk installed, so I downloaded and installed 
> gtk+-devel-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm from Red Hat. And the compilation came further:
> 
> But it then came with:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory
> 
> I made the symlink libX11.so to the libX11.so.x.y (as written in your discussion group).
> The compilation continued, but now this:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lglib: No such file or directory
> 
> The answer might then be "you must install the glibc packages" ?? But I got the libc 
> packages installed isn't it the same? or..

You need to install the glib-devel-1.2.6*.rpm package. GLib <> GLibC. GLib
contains basic structures used in GDK and GTK.

Peter