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Old 3rd June 2009
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My *second* C library question today

So as well as checking out socket programming on OpenBSD, I was looking at X programming. I wanted to test a few examples on the net, all of which tell me to include this files -

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#include <X11/Xlib.h>
On OpenBSD however, it's located -
Code:
/usr/X11R6/include
Is this the standard location for these libraries, or has OpenBSD located them in a non standard location?

I don't mind using the OpenBSD locations, but wouldn't this make the source unportable to other *nixes that have the xlibs in the standard directory?
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Is this the standard location for these libraries, or has OpenBSD located them in a non standard location?
Well, no, since the part that's in your code: #include <X11/Xlib.h>
is portable.

The path where X11 resides can be either part of the build setting/environment or can be specified as a gcc option (-I).
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Well, no, since the part that's in your code: #include <X11/Xlib.h>
is portable.
Yeah, but OpenBSD doesn't work with that - Sorry if I didn't explain that. That's what I would like to use - but that isn't where OpenBSD puts it, so it won't work.

To get it to work under OpenBSD it would have to be instead -

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#include "/usr/X11R6/include"
Which isn't, to my knowledge, portable.
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#include <X11/Xlib.h> is portable, the local version of GCC simply doesn't look in /usr/X11R6, which was the default path on all Unix-like systems prior to the modularization of Xorg R7, OpenBSD retains this for portability reasons!

Developers can utilize pkg-config(1) or simply pass the proper -I, -L and -l arguments to GCC.

Please do a little more research before posting.
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Leave the #include <X11/Xlib.h> as it is and add this option to gcc when compiling:

gcc -I /usr/X11R6/include -L /usr/X11R6/lib prog.c -lX11

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It's also possible to do things like: #include <Xlib.h> and gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 .... or where ever the path to Xlib.h and friends are.

If <X11/Xlib.h> is portable enough when adjusted for the correct paths, then it's likely better to use that; as you've been directed.
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