ld: cannot find -lglut or -lGL or ... [SOLVED] I think

[mdavidsaver]

I was trying to get vs to compile from svn but it was giving me errors like

ld: cannot find -lglut

Of course I checked and /usr/lib/libglut.so was there, but libglut.a was not. libglut.a is looked for when then -static option is given to ld. It seems that the static flag is set by './configure --enable-release' which is what is used by the linux build scripts. Removing -static from configure.ac and rerunning ./bootstrap-sh && ./configure --enable-release && make worked.

The following should work. Check the diff output to make sure sed was not overzealous (it should only change one line).

$ sed -i.bak s/-static// configure.ac
$ diff configure.ac.bak configure.ac
$ ./bootstrap-sh
$ ./configure --enable-release
$ make

I looked through the forum and it looks like several people are/were having the same problem. It would seem to me to be a good idea to give -static its own configure argument (--enable-static perhaps) since static libraries are not necessarily available everywhere.