I have to compile a driver and for this I have to give these flags
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11

Can anyone help me with the makefile plzzzz

The format which I am trying is

obj-m := module1.o

KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
PWD := $(shell pwd)

default:
$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules

The following links might help you:

• http://www.ravnborg.org/kbuild/makefiles.html

• http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/do...makefiles.html

• http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html

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I thought the kernel had to be completely standalone, i.e. it can't make use of any external libraries. It doesn't even make use of the standard C library - you can't use printf() in kernel code, for example (you have to use the kernel's own printk()).

Where did you get this driver? It might help if you gave us more information about it.

Thanks anishakaul.... I later found this out....

Well you are welcome, see if you can answer Nylex's questions in post 3, it might help you.

Yes Nylex, u r correct....
now I think I should have done some more research before posting it here....

I wanted to write a driver based to control mouse functions using C library functions.

I'm not really sure how you would do that. You may be able to create a userspace program that does such a thing, but again, that isn't something I know about.

Using C library functions for the device drivers means you want to write the user-space device drivers since libc provides a wrapper to the functions used by the kernel.

Check out the links shown here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ope....html#index3h1

and I found this interesting:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/...nux?page=0%2C0

C library cannot be used to writing kernel space device drivers since it works in user space.
However as a replacement you have to use kernel level functions.
cd to this directory:
You'll find here the source files of functions used by the kernel replacing the glibc library functions.

and check out this too:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/