Install & Play via cargo run fails with cannot find /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lasound, -lGl, -lX11, -lXi

[RyanNerd]

cargo run

churns for a bit and then fails to compile with this:

note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lasound
          /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL
          /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
          /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXi
          collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

[not-fl3]

Yes, you need to install said libraries.

apt install pkg-config libx11-dev libxi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libasound2-dev

(dependning on the disctro the exact command may vary)

[RyanNerd]

@not-fl3 Figured it out from a StackOverflow answer that clued me in: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17580157/4323201
I needed to create a soft link for each missing libXXXX.so

➜ locate libasound.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2.0.0

➜ cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

# create a soft link for each missing libXXX.so:
➜ ln -s libsound.so.2 libsound.so

➜ ll libX11*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 May 19 11:07 libX11.so.6 -> libX11.so.6.3.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M May 19 11:07 libX11.so.6.3.0

➜ ln -s libX11.so.6 libX11.so

[not-fl3]

It really depends on the distro, but some of them (ubuntu) contains lib*.so only in -dev packages. Usually installing -dev pacakges helps without doing symlinks yourself.

[RyanNerd]

It really depends on the distro, but some of them (ubuntu) contains lib*.so only in -dev packages. Usually installing -dev pacakges helps without doing symlinks yourself.

I'm running Linux Mint 20.2.
I tried installing the *-dev packages without success. It's up and running now. Thanks for your time and input.