[barcode] [Fwd: barcode-0.98 installation issues]

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

David Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>   Thanks to all for their replies to the post below. I think I have 
> managed to get barcode-0.98 installed as I can run the app # barcode, 
> it allows me to type various characters and it replies back with 
> information that looks fairly appropriate.
>
> I am now trying to get genbarcode-0.4 on the solaris 10 box and I am 
> receiving all kinds of problems such as:
>
> 1. There's no ./configure option
>
> 2. The Readme file states that I should simply make & then make 
> install, that gives me the following errors:
> #make
> creating dependencies
> rm -rf .tmp.dep
> xargs: illegal option -- 0
> xargs: Uasage: xargs: [various options........]
> find: bad option -maxdepth
> find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list
> make: *** [.dep] Error 2
> #
type 'make -n' to see what it's trying to do.


> 3. In the unzipped archive there is a genbarcode.c file. I can do the 
> following which creates a .o object genbarcode.o:
> #gcc -c genbarcode.c
>
> However when I run the following command it fails. I'm not sure if I'm 
> running the wrong command or whether it's failing for some other reason.
> # gcc -o genbarcode genbarcode.o
> Undefined                              first referenced
>   symbol                                  in file
> Barcode_Delete                            genbarcode.o
> Barcode_Create                            genbarcode.o
> Barcode_Encode                            genbarcode.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to genbarcode
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> #
>
It's probably missing the barcode library. Include something like 
'-lbarcode'.

> Any help with any of the above would be greatly appreciated as I seem 
> to be at a dead end and I've got a soar head from banging it against 
> the wall.
>
> As you'll gather I am a neebie to barcode software and unix in general.
>
> Thanks
> David
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