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  • SGaistS Offline
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    SGaist
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    Hi,

    What Linux distribution are you running ?
    What architecture is it ?

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    • WotanW Offline
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      #3

      I am under Debian 9.4 and my architecture is x86_64.

      $ uname -a
      Linux VTK-industries-salon 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
      

      Hope it helped !

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        How did you install Qt ?

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          mrjj
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          Hi
          On ubuntu i had to do
          sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev
          to get the actual headers.

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          • WotanW Offline
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            Wotan
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            #6

            The package mesa-common-dev is already install on my computer.
            And I installed Qt trough the installer for linux qt-unified-linux-x64-3.0.4-online.run

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            • WotanW Wotan

              The package mesa-common-dev is already install on my computer.
              And I installed Qt trough the installer for linux qt-unified-linux-x64-3.0.4-online.run

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              jsulm
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              @Wotan See here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/linux.html
              You need to install

              sudo apt-get install build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev
              

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              • WotanW Offline
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                jsulm : it is already installed ...

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                • SGaistS Offline
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                  What graphic stack do you have on your machine ?

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                  • WotanW Offline
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                    SGaist : What do you mean ? What is a graphic stack ?

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                      Graphics card, driver, etc.

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                        #12

                        My graphic card is a "GeForce GTX 1060 6GB"
                        The driver I installed is "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.42.run"
                        I hope it helped ...

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                          Did you check the related libraries ? Where are they installed ?

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                            @Wotan said in "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL" impossible to compile a Qt project:

                            GL

                            Run the following command in shell and see if the libraries installed or not in your computer

                            ldconfig -v | grep -i GL

                            The library you are looking will be libGL.so . If it is not there install it as follows,

                            sudo apt-get install libgl1 -y

                            That will probably fix this issue.

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                            • jsulmJ jsulm

                              @Wotan See here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/linux.html
                              You need to install

                              sudo apt-get install build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev
                              
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                              @jsulm Thanks your so much. Problem solved

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                              • M Monolith

                                @jsulm Thanks your so much. Problem solved

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                                @monolith said in "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL" impossible to compile a Qt project:

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