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From: blue@cam.nist.gov (Jim Blue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Linking X programs
Message-ID: <3752@fs1.cam.nist.gov>
Date: 5 Jun 90 17:51:34 GMT
Reply-To: blue@fs1.cam.nist.gov (Jim Blue)
Organization: National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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In article <3712@fs1.cam.nist.gov> I wrote:
>
>I am trying to link the simplest widget example from the Athena widget set,
>the "Hello world" example, xhw.c
>  ...
>The linker can't find XtAppInitialize, which should be in the Xt library,
>but isn't on my Personal Iris, release 3.2
 
The problem (which was found by a colleague, not anyone from SGI)
is that XtAppInitialize is an X11R4 program, but IRIX 3.2 has X11R3 libraries.
I had picked up the R4 version of the Xaw examples by mistake. The R3 version 
of xhw.c uses XtInitialize.

Thanks to those who responded.