Can not Compile on CentOS 5.10

[Gablea]

Hi All,

I have installed FreeBASIC onto my CentOS 5.10 laptop and I am getting the following message
ld: cannot find -lXext

but when I install the package I get the message saying it is already installed

can someone please help me as I am a complete newbie to Linux

[TJF]

Did you install the development version (-dev) of the library?

[Gablea]

i've sorted it as I moved to Ubuntu 12.4 :)

[nymair]

CentOS 5.10 is not a problem. I have compiled FB 1.00 successfully on CentOS 5.9, the process of compilation is very smooth.

[tinram]

@nymair
Yes, I agree.

On my CentOS 6.5 32-bit, the following enabled FBC, FBC-GCC, and GUI-executable creation:

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cd <extracted_directory>
sudo ./install.sh -i
sudo yum install gcc
sudo yum install ncurses-devel.i686 libX11-devel.i686 libXext-devel.i686 libXpm-devel.i686 libXrandr-devel.i686

[Gablea]

I am not sure what i am doing wrong but I can not still get compile on Centos

I have installed the following
gcc
libstdc++-devel
ncurses-devel
libX11-devel
libXext-devel libXpm-devel
libXrandr-devel
libXrender-devel
libstdc++-static
binutils
binutils-devel

when I do this fbc npos.bas I get this message

fbc: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: can not open shared object file: No such file or directory

am i missing something or have i broke it? I have installed Version 1.00.0 in Linux CentOS

[counting_pine]

I'm not an expert, but from a quick search, a missing libtinfo.so.5 seems to be a common problem on CentOS 5, so it's probably nothing you or FB are doing wrong.

[TJF]

The run-time loader cannot find the binaries of library libtinfo.

On Debian systems libtinfo is included in the libncurses package. I guess on CentOS it's a separate package. Just try to install libtinfo-dev (or libtinfo5-dev, or the run-time package without the -dev).