Geany Compler Errors

[Mike Green9]

Ubuntu 20.04, FreeBasic V1.07, Geany 1.36

Hi.

Whenever Geany Compiles a program with either of these statements:

‘WindowTitle’ or ‘Screen’ or ‘#include “fbgfx.bi”’

the compiler says:
ld: cannot find -lXpm
ld: cannot find -lXander
ld: cannot find -lXrendend

What am I missing?

Thanks,
M….

[dodicat]

I think you'll need to get them from your repository.
Here are the first few lines of fbgfx.bi

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#ifndef __fbgfx_bi__
#define __fbgfx_bi__

#inclib "fbgfx"
#ifdef __FB_WIN32__
	#inclib "gdi32"
	#inclib "winmm"
	#inclib "user32"
#elseif defined(__FB_LINUX__)
	#libpath "/usr/X11R6/lib"
	#inclib "X11"
	#inclib "Xext"
	#inclib "Xpm"
	#inclib "Xrandr"
	#inclib "Xrender"
	#inclib "pthread"
#endif
 

Every Linux distro I have used, I had to do this, but I use Windows these days.
There are some regular Linux users here, perhaps they will elaborate.

[badidea]

It is not Geany that does the compilation. That is done by the freebasic compiler (fbc), called by Geany.
The needed libraries are listed in the first topic in the linux section on this forum (https://freebasic.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=5), in the readme.txt shipped with freebasic (https://github.com/freebasic/fbc/blob/master/readme.txt) and on the wiki (https://freebasic.net/wiki/CompilerInstalling).

[Mike Green9]

Hi and thanks.

This did it:

sudo apt install libx11-dev libxext-dev libxpm-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev

You guys are GREAT!!

M...