fract-ol

42 school fract'ol project

How to Install Minilibx on a Mac

The dependencies should already be installed by default.

Download Minilibx OpenGL tgz file from the project page and extract it.

cd /path/to/mlx
make

Download the man files from the linux git repo below.

TODO: Add instructions for setting up manual

Copy files to /usr/ path

sudo cp libmlx.a /usr/local/lib/
sudo cp mlx.h /usr/local/include/

After that, to compile your project:

gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror main.c -lm -lmlx -framework OpenGL -framework AppKit

How to Install Minilibx on Linux

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install libxext-dev
sudo apt-get install libxrandr-dev
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
sudo apt-get install libbsd-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Download and configure library

git clone https://github.com/42Paris/minilibx-linux.git
cd minilibx-linux
make

Create manual directory

cd /usr/local/man/
sudo mkdir man1

Return to the minilibx directory

cd /path/to/minilibx-linux

Copy files to /usr/ path

sudo cp man/man1/* /usr/local/man/man1/
sudo cp libmlx.a /usr/local/lib/
sudo cp mlx.h /usr/local/include/

Test it, the following command must show the minilibx manual

man mlx

After that, to compile your project:

gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror main.c -lbsd -lmlx -lXext -lX11

Rule of Thumb: On a linking command line, libraries go after object files, not before them.

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