Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (84 mails)

[Colin Carter <colincarter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gurus,
Sorry to sound ignorant, but after 38 years of coding, little 
problems still bug me, as I am a beginner with Linux.
I am running SuSE 9.1
Q1
When I try to compile and link a program the system says that
the XWindow functions are not defined.  That is, not found in 
the libraries.  But I cannot find any documentation (in the 
masses of it) which tell me how to link.  (I can manage the MS
Windows API, but not the Linux.)
Q2
I am running 64 bit Linux, but there appears to be no 
documentation about the arguments expected by SuSE XWindow.
That is: are the normal 32 bit integers still 32 bit or 
change to 64 bit for function calls?  More importantly, where
is the documentation?

Any help would be appreciated, especially a pointers into the
documentation.  I have a stack of books on Linux, and
there is  a million lines of information with which I am
familiar with after 38 years of coding, but I cannot find
the 'new' stuff required to transfer standard 32 bit Linux to
64 bit Linux, and I cannot find stuff which explains 
libraries.

Kind regards,
Colin Carter   (colincarter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)