Missing link to /usr/lib/libGL.so

vollstock commented 6 years ago

I am the maintainer of ther Tooloop open media server. When installting the driver using this code it seems, the file /usr/lib/libGL.so is missing.

Compiling an opeframeworks app, fails with this message:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

It’s expecting /usr/lib/libGL.so but only libGL.so.1 is there, which itself is a link to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1

When adding a link from /usr/lib/libGL.so to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 solves that issue.

Therefor in my install script I have this code now:

# repair link so we can compile GL stuff
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so

Sorry I am not very knowledged with this so I'm asking. Shouldn't the installer add this link in the first place?

aaronp24 commented 6 years ago

For new projects, I recommend getting libGL and related libraries from https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd rather than from the NVIDIA driver installer. nvidia-installer checks whether libglvnd's libraries are present at install time to decide what to do.

vollstock commented 6 years ago

you mean I shold ship this with my OS?

aaronp24 commented 6 years ago

Yes, I recommend that.

vollstock commented 6 years ago

Thanks, will have a look :-)

NVIDIA / nvidia-installer

Missing link to /usr/lib/libGL.so #9