[solved] Qt5 under Ubuntu cannot find -lGL

[utcenter]

Just installed a copy of Ubuntu 12.04 and a "latest successful" build of the offline package of 5.0.1 and trying to run a simple test project I got this error message:

bq. /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL

The "solution" I found on the Ubuntu forums was in Ubuntu/Linux specific terminology of which I, a Windows user, couldn't make anything useful, something about linkage being broken or the symbolic link being bad and having to remove the broken .so and associate the right files, without any ideas which are the broken ones, which are the right ones and so forth. There are plenty of libGL varying in sizes and versions.

So explaining it in a more understandable way will be appreciated.

[sierdzio]

Could be that you just miss Mesa package. Take a look at XCB dependencies listed "here":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git and install what's missing.

I've seen this error also mentioned in a different case, but I don't remember the solution there.

[lilian.moraru]

[quote author="sierdzio" date="1358412105"]Could be that you just miss Mesa package. Take a look at XCB dependencies listed "here":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git and install what's missing.

I've seen this error also mentioned in a different case, but I don't remember the solution there.[/quote]

I mentioned the same problem on the digia blog when the Qt 5 was released.
Solved the problem by installing the “libglu1-mesa-dev” package.
@sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev -y@

[utcenter]

I think I had this package installed, there were several mesa packages pre-installed, but will take a look later anyway.

[nmabhinandan]

Thanks bro! You saved my day.