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

mrjj · wrote on 9 Jun 2018, 22:49

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

Wotan · 10 Jun 2018, 17:15

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

jsulm · 14 Aug 2019, 04:43

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

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

Wotan · wrote on 11 Jun 2018, 13:59

jsulm : it is already installed ...

SGaist · wrote on 11 Jun 2018, 22:00

What graphic stack do you have on your machine ?

Wotan · wrote on 12 Jun 2018, 12:16

SGaist : What do you mean ? What is a graphic stack ?

SGaist · wrote on 12 Jun 2018, 21:39

Graphics card, driver, etc.

Wotan · wrote on 13 Jun 2018, 17:01

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 ...

SGaist · wrote on 13 Jun 2018, 21:02

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

Sifu · wrote on 19 Jun 2018, 17:02

@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.

Monolith · 14 Aug 2019, 13:51

@jsulm Thanks your so much. Problem solved

Pablo J. Rogina · wrote on 14 Aug 2019, 13:51

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

Problem solved

so please mark your post as such! Thanks.