MySQL Forums :: MySQL Workbench :: WorkBench compile problems

Rob Lee wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I've grabbed the 2.0.11 src
> (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libsigc++/
> 2.0/libsigc++-2.0.11.tar.gz) and successfully
> installed.
>

... snip ...

> So I think it's passed the previous compile errors
> and the linker is now failing to find the lua libs
> ??
>
> I have :
>
> /usr/lib/liblualib50.so.5.0
> /usr/lib/liblualib50.so.5
> /usr/lib/liblualib50.a
> /usr/lib/liblualib50.so
>
> and
>
> /usr/lib/liblua50.a
> /usr/lib/liblua50.so
>
> So I'm not sure what is wrong ... Any suggestions
> ?

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llualib

So the linker is looking for liblualib, but you have liblualib50. I'm not sure of the accepted means to fix this, but what if you create a symlink from liblualib50.a to liblualub.a ?

Or do you have a liblualib.a somewhere else?