[CMake] Finding X11 fails under OS X...

[Martin Costabel]

Georgios Petasis wrote:
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> O/H Martin Costabel έγραψε:
>> Georgios Petasis wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to compile something that uses X under OS X 10.5.5, but
>>> cmake is unable to locate the X11 libraries.
>>> The include path is located. The failure is while detecting libraries.
>>> For example. libX11 exists in /usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib. Cmake does
>>> not find this library, as it expects to find "libX11.dylib".
>>> There is a libX11.la file from libtool, but is not used during search. I
>>> suppose if the libX11.la was parsed, then the library libX11.6.dylib
>>> would have been found.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how can I persuade cmake to locate the X11 libraries?
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>> If you don't have /usr/X11/lib/libX11.dylib (which is a symbolic link 
>> to libX11.6.dylib), then your X11 installation is incomplete. You must 
>> have removed this symlink accidentally. Or maybe you can blame it on 
>> Apple's installer which is known to occasionally forget files.
>>
> No I don't. In fact there is only a .la file all X11 libraries, besides 
> the version-coded .dylib files. The only places that there .dylib files 
> without version (along with the versioned ones) is inside the SDK 
> folders, which are not considered at all by cmake.
> 
> What is the suggested way? Reinstall X-code to get the missing files?

This would not help. Strange as it may sound, but on OSX 10.5 the 
unversioned /usr/X11/lib/*.dylib symlinks are installed by the 
X11User.pkg from the system disk, not by the X11SDK.pkg from Xcode.

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Martin