Hi all,

I don't often use umonitor, but today as I was reading the Synchronet instructions about it, I saw the mention of gtkmonitor. I went hunting for it on my system, but didn't find it in /exec/, I saw the source for it was in the /src/ directories, so I tried to compile it.

I got several errors, which I fixed by installing the "libglade2.0-dev" package.

After that, it almost compiles, but it errors out with "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsbbs"

I have seen a couple threads from 2009 with this issue (and they all seemed to be on Debian, which I am also using), but I didn't see a solution about how to fix it.

My BBS was compiled from source.

Here's the output of make VERBOSE=1:



make -C ../../xpdev mtlib
make[1]: Entering directory `/sbbs/src/xpdev'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `mtlib'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sbbs/src/xpdev'
make -C ../../smblib lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/sbbs/src/smblib'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `lib'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sbbs/src/smblib'
Linking gcc.linux.x64.exe.debug/gtkmonitor
gcc -Lgcc.linux.x64.lib.debug -Wl,-E -L../gcc.linux.x64.lib.debug - L../../smblib/gcc.linux.x64.lib.debug -L../../xpdev/gcc.linux.x64.lib.debug -Wl,--rpath - Wl,/sbbs/src/sbbs3/gcc.linux.x64.lib.debug gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/gtkmonitor.o
gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/util_funcs.o gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/events.o
-o gcc.linux.x64.exe.debug/gtkmonitor -lsbbs `pkg-config libglade-2.0 --libs` -lsmb -lxpdev_mt -lm - lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsbbs
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [gcc.linux.x64.exe.debug/gtkmonitor] Error 1

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Re: Error compiling gtkmonitor
By: Kirkman to All on Wed Feb 05 2014 04:36 pm

I don't often use umonitor, but today as I was reading the Synchronet instructions about it, I saw the mention of gtkmonitor. I went hunting for it on my system, but didn't find it in /exec/, I saw the source for it was in the /src/ directories, so I tried to compile it.

I got several errors, which I fixed by installing the "libglade2.0-dev" package.

After that, it almost compiles, but it errors out with "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsbbs"

This is likely because you don't have a matching libsbbs.so in the expected directory. In your example, it needed sbbs3/gcc.linux.x64.lib.debug/libsbbs.so
to exist. You can create it by changing to the sbbs3 directory and doing a "gmake".

Likely you have a release build, so that would be the better lib to link against by doing a non-debug build of gtkmonitor:

gmake RELEASE=please


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