Problems Installing LazOpenGLContext
lazarus / 70-OpenGL

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local-vision · 2017-12-11 01:12

When attempting to install LazOpenGLContext package the process fails
during IDE rebuild with Lazarus 1.8. The following appears:

lazarus.pp(161,1) Error: Error while linking

Have used LazOpenGLContext for many years without problems.

Any ideas to solve this issue would be appreciated.

Using Lazarus 1.8 on a Linux Mint 18.1 64 bit

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balazsszekely · 2017-12-11 02:51

QuoteWhen attempting to install LazOpenGLContext package the process
fails during IDE rebuild with Lazarus 1.8. The following appears:
lazarus.pp(161,1) Error: Error while linking
"Error while linking" usually means a missing or incompatible library.
Please try: sudo apt-get install libgl-dev

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bytebites · 2017-12-11 06:05

I fixed similar issue with

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so

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local-vision · 2017-12-11 14:51

bytebites and GetMem,

Using your combined input has allowed me to resolve the issue.
Additionally tudi_x posted the following:

Quote from: tudi_x on October 13, 2017, 06:51:51 pmlooks like i was
missing the below:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxtst-dev
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev

after the below the linking error does not appear.

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