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  • WotanW Offline
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    Wotan
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    Since I bought a new computer (I installed Debian stretch with Qt 5.10.1), I can't anymore compile a Qt project. I always end on the following message : "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL"
    After going through many forum, I can already tell you that I already install libglapi-mesa, libgl1-mesa-dev, libgles1-mesa-dev and libgles2-mesa-dev, but I still end in the same compile error.

    Of course, if I delete -lGL from the Makefile I can compile but I would like to be able to include this library.

    As anyone an idea about what I am missing ?

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    • SGaistS Offline
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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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        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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              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
                

                https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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

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                        Graphics card, driver, etc.

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                          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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                                  @jsulm Thanks your so much. Problem solved

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