Can't compile on SparkyLinux. about moonfltk HOT 8 CLOSED

Great, thanks. I must have got things in a twist when I installed fltk because I have since scrubbed everything (including removing the '.a' files in /usr/local/lib/ and the fltk-config binary), reinstalled fltk-dev from the repo and its all fine now. Now there are no '.a' files in /usr/local/lib/ after the re-install, so I do not know where they came from originally. For some reason the old fltk-config was making the linker use them instead of the files in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ where the '.a' and '.so' files now happily coexist.

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Try changing -fpic to -fPIC in /src/Makefile at line 87 .

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Forget mmy last comment. I just noticed from your error message that the linker is attempting to link against the FLTK static library (libfltk.a). Are you sure the FLTK shared objects (.so) are installed on your system?

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Hello, yes, the .so files are there. I managed to sort it out with a bodge. I renamed the files:
/usr/local/lib/libfltk_gl.a
/usr/local/lib/libfltk_images.a
/usr/local/lib/libfltk.a
with a different extension so that they are ignored during linking (I hope) and the makefile ran OK, apparently. I renamed them back to '.a' afterwards for luck. My lua scripts run with moonfltk fine now.

Thanks for helping - happy to try a better solution.

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Are the .so files in a different directory? As far as I know, the linker should choose the .so over the .a if it finds both.

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Ah, ok. If that's the case, creating soft links to the .so files in /usr/local/lib should fix the issue.

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