Hi people.
Been trying to install some dependencies for FreeCAD on Slackware64 (multilib enabled). And most of them give me this error when compiling via Sbopkg:

/usr/lib/libXext.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [simple] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/ftgl-2.1.3~rc5/demo'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/ftgl-2.1.3~rc5'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I tried several tips given all over the web, including pasting this to the Slackbuilds script:

LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}" \

as instructed on AlienBob's multilib FAQ.
I'm a noob, so I don't know exactly what i'm doing, can anyone give me some help?
Cheers.

Hi & Welcome to Linux Questions.

Looking at the SlackBuilds page you will need to install these dependencies.
FreeCAD requires xerces-c, Coin, SoQt, Pivy, and OpenCASCADE

Install the dependencies in order and than install install FreeCAD.

If you want to install package A and it depends on B which depends on C, you have to install C before you can install B before you can install A.

After running the SlackBuilds script you should have a package with the SBo.tgz extention in your /tmp directory.
From the /tmp directory you should be able to use installpkg to install the first dependency.
<OR> you can use pkgtool to install the package.

The error says that the file is in the wrong format ".so" and it should be .tgz.

http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:..._off_slackware
http://www.slackbook.org/html/packag...utilities.html