[PLUG] Cal Poly OCR

Kyle Accardi sandbox at pacifier.com
Wed Feb 26 18:18:02 UTC 2003


Robert Kopp wrote:
> While looking into the subject of OCR software, I came
> across a source package developed at Cal Poly that was
> intended for Linux. When I attempted to compile it,
> however, I got the error message below. Is this the
> sort of thing that would be easy to fix?
> 
> [rtk at psyche ocr-0.0a]$ make
> gcc -O2 -funroll-loops -g average.o display.o fixit.o
> histogram.o hough.o rotate.o scale.o binarize.o
> blobify.o imageproc.o myutilities.o split.o
> utilities.o xmalloc.o xshowimage.o version.c -o
> display -L/usr/unsupported/lib -lm -lX11
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [display] Error 1

I think it's looking for the X11 devel libraries which are always (?) needed 
to build X apps.  In my distro, it's part of the XFree86-devel package.

--
Kyle Accardi





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