[freespace2] Strange compilation failure.

[zakk]

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 06:38, Вячеслав Диконов wrote:
> I cannot compile Freespace2 CVS snapshot. It fails at the very end with
> "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL". Then happens Error 1.
> 
> I have an Nvidia TNT2 card (with Nvidia driver installed). Several
> OpenGL games run flawlessly on the system. I compiled things like
> BillardGL with no problems before. There is a file named gl.h in
> /usr/include/~GL which seems to have the missing function declarations. 
> 
> Do I miss anything? 
> -lGL must link to something very generic in Linux isn't it?
> 
> I know next to nothing about C or C++ development.
> Help needed!
> 
> 
> P.S. Could you (the developers) just make a static  beta binary or at
> least a guaranteed-to-compile snapshot available?

For whatever reason, the linker isn't finding libGL.so on your system.
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-zakk
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