BUILD FAILING ON UBUNTU

[dlgeraghty]

tried to build using the makefile, it failed in ubuntu (maybe I was missing some libs but I doubt that...)
searching in the internet I came to try : gcc dwmblocks.c -lX11 -o dwmblocks which successfully compiled

[torrinfail]

I would need the error that make spit out to help with that.

[mendezmariano]

here it comes:
$ make
cc pkg-config --cflags x11 pkg-config --libs x11 dwmblocks.c -o dwmblocks
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccg6dlqE.o: in function setroot': dwmblocks.c:(.text+0x3b6): undefined reference to XOpenDisplay'
/usr/bin/ld: dwmblocks.c:(.text+0x428): undefined reference to XStoreName' /usr/bin/ld: dwmblocks.c:(.text+0x437): undefined reference to XCloseDisplay'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

[torrinfail]

I have come across this issue on my pinebook pro running debian. I never figured out the root cause myself. The way I got it to work was by using clang (CC=clang make) in the most recent commit. Things to check if you prefer using gcc, check the output of pkg-config --libs x11 by itself, and make sure that cc is linked to gcc properly with ls -l $(which cc). The makefile works on arch, void, alpine, freebsd, and openbsd. So I think it is just an issue with debian distros.

[torrinfail]

I merged a change that swapped the order of the cc arguments in the Makefile which should solve this issue.

[thierrybo]

Hi,

yes but you swap cc arguments order back again in 7e0bc3f, so the issue is always there in Debian.

${CC} dwmblocks.c `pkg-config --cflags x11 --libs x11` -o dwmblocks

just work fine.

[audrew]

Hi,

yes but you swap cc arguments order back again in 7e0bc3f, so the issue is always there in Debian.

${CC} dwmblocks.c `pkg-config --cflags x11 --libs x11` -o dwmblocks

just work fine.

Thanks, that worked fine