I am an intermediate Linux user, I have used many distros over the years. That being said, I am trying to compile a program that doesn't have .deb package for it. I was able to get past the first few issues (dependencies/libraries), however it is now giving me another error on the compile. I am running wheezy and KDE is my GUI (the program is designed to work in KDE).

this is the error that I got from the logs:

configure:20944: checking for libz
configure:20981: gcc -o conftest -ansi -W -Wall -pedantic -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -O2 -I.
-D_REENTRANT conftest.c -L/usr/lib -lz >&5
In file included from /usr/include/zconf.h:447:0,
from /usr/include/zlib.h:34,
from configure:20962:
/usr/include/unistd.h:275:21: error: conflicting types for 'size_t'
In file included from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys/types.h:147:0,
from /usr/include/zconf.h:424,
from /usr/include/zlib.h:34,
from configure:20962:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/include/stddef.h:213:23: note: previous declaration of 'size_t' was here
configure: In function 'main':
configure:20973:23: warning: comparison with string literal results in unspecified behavior [-Waddress]
configure:20984: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
#line 20960 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

#include<zlib.h>

#ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN
# ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
# endif
int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; }
#endif
int
main ()
{
return (zlibVersion() == ZLIB_VERSION);
;
return 0;
}
configure:21014: error: not found. Check your installation and look into config.log

any help in configuring this would be appreciated

Thanks,

Debian ?


Is the package 'zlib1g-dev' installed ?

Which program are you trying to compile ? ?


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I am installing KMC -KDE Gui Mud Client. I don't care for the stock one and I've tried mudlet but I didn't like that one at all. TT++ is my goto but it is still very command line and I am looking for a more robust mud client.

Yes the zlib package was installed,however I installed a few other libraries that were related to zlib and now it worked fine.

But now I am stuck on QT. I am running QT4 it is looking for QT3. I did change the configure file to match the search string to do a call for QT4, however I am still pulling errors. I also installed all programs associated with QT and no luck, here are the error codes from this:

configure:21464: checking for Qt
configure: 21526: /usr/lib/qt3/include/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/lib/qt3/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/lib/qt/include/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/lib/qt/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/local/qt/include/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/include/qt/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/include/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/qt/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/X11R6/include/qt/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/X11R6/include/qt2/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: ./qstyle.h
tried NO
tried /usr/lib/qt3/lib
tried /usr/lib/qt3
tried /usr/lib/qt/lib
tried /usr/lib/qt
tried /usr/X11R6/lib
tried /usr/lib
tried /usr/local/qt/lib
tried /usr/lib
configure:21641: rm -rf SunWS_cache; g++ -o conftest -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wbad-function-cast -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-protot
ypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -INO -I. -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT
-LNONE -L/usr/lib conftest.cc -lqt-mt -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lresolv -lpthread 1>&5
cc1plus: warning: command line option '-Wbad-function-cast' is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++ [enabled by default]
cc1plus: warning: command line option '-Wmissing-prototypes' is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++ [enabled by default]
conftest.cc:2:21: fatal error: qglobal.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
configure:21644: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
#include "confdefs.h"
#include <qglobal.h>
#include <qapplication.h>
#include <qcursor.h>
#include <qstylefactory.h>
#include <private/qucomextra_p.h>
#if ! (QT_VERSION >= 303)
#error 1
#endif

int main() {
(void)QStyleFactory::create(QString::null);
QCursor c(Qt::WhatsThisCursor);
return 0;
}
configure:21684: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

Again thanks for helping.

---------- Post added 12-29-12 at 01:11 PM ----------

I am installing KMC -KDE Gui Mud Client. I don't care the stock one and tried mudlet but I didn't like that one at all. TT++ is my goto but it is still very command line and I am looking for a more robust mud client.

Yes the zlib package was installed,however I installed a few other libraries that were related to zlib and now it worked fine.

But now I am stuck on QT. I am running QT4 it is looking for QT3. I did change the configure file to match the search string to do a call for QT4, however I am still pulling errors. I also installed all programs associated with QT and no luck, here are the error codes from this:

configure:21464: checking for Qt
configure: 21526: /usr/lib/qt3/include/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/lib/qt3/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/lib/qt/include/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/lib/qt/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/local/qt/include/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/include/qt/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/include/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/qt/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/X11R6/include/qt/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: /usr/X11R6/include/qt2/qstyle.h
configure: 21526: ./qstyle.h
tried NO
tried /usr/lib/qt3/lib
tried /usr/lib/qt3
tried /usr/lib/qt/lib
tried /usr/lib/qt
tried /usr/X11R6/lib
tried /usr/lib
tried /usr/local/qt/lib
tried /usr/lib
configure:21641: rm -rf SunWS_cache; g++ -o conftest -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wbad-function-cast -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-protot
ypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -INO -I. -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT
-LNONE -L/usr/lib conftest.cc -lqt-mt -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lresolv -lpthread 1>&5
cc1plus: warning: command line option '-Wbad-function-cast' is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++ [enabled by default]
cc1plus: warning: command line option '-Wmissing-prototypes' is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++ [enabled by default]
conftest.cc:2:21: fatal error: qglobal.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
configure:21644: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
#include "confdefs.h"
#include <qglobal.h>
#include <qapplication.h>
#include <qcursor.h>
#include <qstylefactory.h>
#include <private/qucomextra_p.h>
#if ! (QT_VERSION >= 303)
#error 1
#endif

int main() {
(void)QStyleFactory::create(QString::null);
QCursor c(Qt::WhatsThisCursor);
return 0;
}
configure:21684: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

Again thanks for helping.

Perhaps try with libqt4-qt3support and libqt4-dev-bin

KMC : KDE3 Gui Mud Client

The qt3 library 'libqt-mt-dev' is requiered.
Available for Debian Squeeze and Sid ..
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libqt3-mt-dev
.. The 'libqt-mt-dev' dependencies might be a problem to solve.
Suggest : build the qt-x11-free (3:3.3.8b-7) packages for Wheezy :
http://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/qt-x11-free
I.e. 1) # apt-get build-dep qt-x11-free
2) $ apt-get -b source qt-x11-free=3:3.3.8b-7


But : The real stopper may not be qt3, but the required KDE3 development files.

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The files in /usr/include ... are development headers, so you can google which packages contain the missing header files. You can usually guess the package name close enough to find it with apt-cache search <string>. Debian mostly uses dev to specify development and usually begins with lib.