[openal] cannot find -lopenal ... cant find .a file

[Daniel Gibson]

It seems like you're trying to link it statically (thus needing the .a) 
and libopenal-dev doesn't contain the static lib anymore.
Why don't you just link it dynamically?

Cheers,
Daniel

Am 11.06.2014 22:23, schrieb Kip Carr:
> I am currently trying to link against the latest openal
> (1:1.14-4ubuntu1) in Ubuntu 14.  I did an apt-get install libopenal-dev
> to get latest.  When I compile I get an error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find –lopenal
>
> I did a “find . –name “*openal*” in the user folder and this is what I get:
>
> ./share/doc/libopenal-data
>
> ./share/doc/libopenal-dev
>
> ./share/doc/libopenal1
>
> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so
>
> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/openal.pc
>
> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1
>
> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1.14.0
>
> This worked under Ubuntu 8 (sorry updating ollllld code) but there was
> an .a file and they were all just located under lib not the new x86_64
> folder.  Is there a reason the .a file isn’t in the latest release or
> any other reason I would be getting this error?  Ive tried searching
> around and there isn’t anything on this sort of problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> */Kip/*
>
>
>
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