On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:48 PM, William Pentney <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I've tried to install NTK on both a Raspberry Pi 3 and an Ubuntu 16.04
> distro, so as to install Non, and both times it fails with
>
> Checking for 'gcc' (C compiler)          : /usr/bin/gcc
> Checking for 'g++' (C++ compiler)        : /usr/bin/g++
> Checking for program 'pkg-config'                    :
> ['/usr/bin/pkg-config']
> Checking for 'x11'                                   : not found
> The configuration failed
> (complete log in /home/pentney/ntk/build/config.log)
>
> It seems to be looking for a x11.pc file that isn't there - from
> build/config.log:
>
> Checking for 'x11'
> ['/usr/bin/pkg-config', '--cflags', '--libs', 'x11']
> err: Package x11 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `x11.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>
> There is no x11.pc file on either the Raspbian or the Ubuntu systems I
> tried this in, both of which are plain out-of-the-box installations that
> definitely have X11 and pkg-config installed and working. It doesn't appear
> to be in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig or any alternative site, either. I don't
> see how the NTK package would ever install on many conventional Linux
> distributions.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Billl
>

Quite. In order to compile software, you need to install not just the
runtime dependencies, but the build dependencies, which in this case is (at
least) the package libx11-dev.

apt-get build-dep libfltk1.3 will get you started.

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