cannot find -lGL

[wilycoder]

Hello,

I am a graphics programmer who has made the switch from ATi to nVidia due to Linux support (well performance too). My development platform is an amd64 & 7800GTX-512.

When I try to compile even the simplest of glut apps, the compilation fails.

However,I can run the 64 bit version of ut2004 just fine. So the driver must be in there ok.

Any ideas what is throwing off the linker?

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL

driver: 8174

[netllama]

What are you trying to compile, and what is the command you're using to compile it?

Also, pleae post an nvidia-bug-report.log.

Thanks,
Lonni

[pzgren]

Originally Posted by wilycoder

Any ideas what is throwing off the linker?

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL

driver: 8174

This means the include files in /usr/include/GL/* for compiling the app, not the libGL self.
The problem can be the path on a 64bit system, which was /usr/lib64, not /usr/lib on some distributions and/or no xorg-devel / libGL-devel package installed. Which distribution ?

Marcus

[wilycoder]

Gentoo 2005.1

[wilycoder]

Originally Posted by netllama

What are you trying to compile, and what is the command you're using to compile it?

Also, pleae post an nvidia-bug-report.log.

Thanks,
Lonni

I am trying to compile a particle system demo that I created. The program was previously tested on my laptop, which is also the 64 bit version of Linux, but with a Mobility Radeon 9700.

In short, I haven't really gotten familiar with running nVidia drivers in linux. Does the nVidia driver include the libraries that g++ is looking for?

[netllama]

I don't believe that you stated which libraries g++ is looking for. The nvidia driver installs OpenGL headers by default, along with libGL.so.

You haven't provided very much information. What is the command and output that you're seeing? Please post the bug report I requested.

Thanks,
Lonni