[fpc-pascal]/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgd errorr

[Georgi Georgiev]

 --- Andy Sy <andy at netfxph.com> wrote: > I've noticed
that in many of the example programs
> that
> come with FreePascal, trying to compile them results
> in
> an link error where ld claims it cannot find a
> particular
> library (I'm getting one for gd) even though the
> corresponding library file is present in
> 
> /usr/local/lib/fpc/1.0.10/units/linux/libxxx
> 
>  From searching the archives, it seems that this is
> due to
> the actual library itself missing (at least for
> other
> libraries like mysql and postgres).  What then are
> the
> file like gd.o, libgd.a, libpgd.ppu for?  Are they
> just
> stubs?  And what exactly do they do?

May be the problem is that the linker can't find the
corresponding header files of the actual library.

I'm using Debian and the followng sequence of 
actions solves such problems:

1. Installing standart FreePascal system:

apt-get install fp-compiler ....    # install
FreePascal
apt-get install binutils                 # install
assembler

2. Installing some actual library (postgresql as an
example):

apt-get install postgresql            # PostgreSQL
itself
apt-get install postgresql-dev    # header files for
libpq

The last step (installing the *-dev package) is the 
solution (in my opinion) !


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