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[Thomas Okken]

(08-18-2019 11:53 AM)ijabbott Wrote:  

(08-18-2019 11:37 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  The X11 library is always required, but what varies is whether you have to tell the linker about it or not. I do my Linux builds in Ubuntu 12.04, and -lX11 is not needed there. I'll have to check what happens when I do add it there; I don't remember whether I left it off out of misguided command-line minimalism or because of a warning.

Since Ubuntu 12.04 went EOL over 2 years ago, have you considered building it on something more modern? At least to pick up the problems reported by later versions of gcc.

The advantage of building on an old distribution is that the binaries I create work just about everywhere. If I were to build on a newer distro, that would probably cause incompatibilities with older ones.

(08-18-2019 11:53 AM)ijabbott Wrote:  

(08-18-2019 11:37 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  The downsides are error messages from compilers that don't recognize -Wno-narrowing.

The other option is to fix the warnings.

I think you missed the part of how much work that would entail. I can think of many more enjoyable and/or productive ways to spend my time!