[XaraXtreme-dev] Compile on Slackware 10.2

["Brent W. Woodruff" <brent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello development type people,

This was originally posted on the XaraLX forum, and I was told this was 
a more appropriate place.

--- First Post ---
Congrats on getting Xara Xtreme LX ready and released as an open source 
project! Some time ago I expressed interest in helping with development, 
so as soon as I saw the source was available (couple of days ago) I got 
it and started compiling. I'm running Slackware Linux 10.2 and I've run 
into a couple of things.

I have written several wxWidgets programs, so I keep several static 
versions of the library around. wxWidgets-2.6.3-rc2 compiled no problem 
for me. I made a build_static_unicode directory in the base source 
directory and configured it with:
../configure --disable-shared --enable-unicode
then did make.

Then I uncompressed Xara, made a build directory in the base source 
directory and configured with:
../configure --enable-static-exec 
--with-wx-config=../../wxWidgets-2.6.3/build_static_unicode/wx-config

I didn't expect to have to specify --enable-static-exec, but that made 
compilation happy. On to linking!

This is where I'm stuck. It appears that the XaraLX_LDFLAGS in the 
Makefile are generated incorrectly. It was looking for them in 
/usr/local/lib instead of using `wx-config --libs` to point to the ones 
in my non-installed static build. I edited the Makefile and the build 
got a little further. Now I am getting that the compiler is unable to 
find -lCDraw and -lfontconfig, which weren't checked for by configure. 
Fontconfig I am vaguely familiar with, and I think I can get it 
installed, but it should still be checked for. I searched high and low 
for what -lCDraw is, but didn't have any luck.

Am I missing something pretty basic from my Linux installation?

Any help would be appreciated!

Brent W. (fprimex)

--- Second Post ---

Okay, I poked around some more and see that CDraw is in:
XaraLX-0.3r693/libs/x86/libCDraw.a

and also that I have fontconfig (comes with X11R6) in:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so

so I hacked on the Makefile some more.

I removed -lCDraw and -lfontconfig, and added the full path to both of 
those libraries to the XaraLX_LDFLAGS. I now have a compiled and working 
Xara LX!

fprimex
--- End Posts ---

Are these issues problems with the configure system or am I just 
building Xara in a weird way?

Brent W.