glfw: cannot find -lXxf86vm

Installation fails:

(peter) ~ go get github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.1/glfw
# github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.1/glfw
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
(peter) ~ ll /usr/lib/libXxf86vm*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 jun 10  2013 /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 -> libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19808 mei 30  2013 /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0

go version go1.4.2 linux/amd64 Debian 6.0

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Created 9 years ago
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Comments: 19 (11 by maintainers)

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README: Update installation steps, mention dependencies, remove older comments. Use -u flag for go get command to ensure latest version is installed (latest versions tend to exist in order to fix bug... — committed to go-gl/glfw by dmitshur 9 years ago

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I just booted up a fresh Ubuntu (it’s what I had) VM and after installing Go, I did this one step:

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev

Afterwards go get -u github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.1/glfw worked (as well as building and running examples).

FWIW, I looked at where the libXxf86vm* files ended up, and it was elsewhere. (But I see you’ve already commented above that it worked for you after getting xorg-dev.)

dmitshur on Jul 19, 2015

This is related to #138. We need to improve the README.

First, can you try a few things:

go get -u github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.1/glfw Use the -u flag for go get.
If the above doesn’t work, try sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev. What does that say? Afterwards, try the go get -u step above.

Let me know if that works.

dmitshur on Jul 19, 2015