i am new to linux just 2 months and have been assigned to develop an application in motif(Xm) and then create its binary fil to be run on pwerpc.

i successfully implemented Xt and X11 code on (Embedded linux developmnt kit ELDK )using CROSSCOMPILER but the embedded linux gcc gives error on Xm code that

/bin/ld: cant find lXm

and if i provide link to the motif libraries it says incompatible version of libXm.so

anyone please suggest where i am wrong and what should i do how to give ppc-linux gcc's ld the Xm libraries

BY THE WAY I HAVE INSTALLED Lesstif 0.9.5.2 and want to design app for powerpc 74xx series

thanx for helping me in advance

Have you tried rebuilding lesstif from source?

yes i tried recompiling
i also tried to remove lesstif and install openmotif
but tsill the same
if i provide the library paths using -L/path/ it gives error "skipping incompatible libXm.so" and the "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXm"

please help me

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Cross compiling an application depending on
e.g. libXm : You will have to cross compile (all)
the dependency / dependencies before the application
and "export" the location, when cross compiling the
application.
.....

thankyou "knudfl" for your reply but I am a newbie to linux and don't know how to cross compile the dependencies

it would be really helpful if you guide me the process of doing the same

i could tell you
i have lesstif in folder"/home/user1/"

after entering lesstif folder i just used "./configure ,make and then make install" for installling lesstif

to cross compile i have no idea

pls help

any other info needed would be sahred as soon as possible

thanks in advance

you can use REAL motif (there are a few), rather than lesstif

http://sourceforge.net/projects/motif250/

(you can find motif-3.2.4 and cde - though 3.2.4 is not compat with motif 2.n apps and has no fvwm style desktop panner)

lesstiff has more bugs than motif , also it uses name libXm.so but is incompatible with the REAL libXm.so lesstiff causes problems with some expensive well know shelf products that need "motif". all (debian/ubantu/other) linux used lesstif, and those apps must be recompiled to use motif (or use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to avoid the libXm.so naming conflict)

i would not suggest lesstif now that "the real thing" is released publicly unless re-releasing something to work within those distros, licensing aside.

@debguy :

Why are you answering 6 year old dead threads ?

The OS`s in question may not exist any more.