I am cross compiling a Lazarus program, creating a 32bit program on a 64bit Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr system, and everything apparently compiles to the very end when I get this messsage
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglib-2.0
What is the full name of the library whose absence results in this error mesage?
libc6-dev:i386 appears to be the most likely library, but when I try to install it with apt indicates build-essential g++ gcc gcc-multilib will be removed so I abort it.
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-libc-dev linux-libc-dev:i386
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc:i386 manpages-dev:i386
Recommended packages:
gcc:i386 c-compiler:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED
build-essential g++ gcc gcc-multilib
The following NEW packages will be installed
libc6-dev:i386 linux-libc-dev:i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-libc-dev
1 to upgrade, 2 to newly install, 4 to remove and 18 not to upgrade.
Need to get 3,126 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
It turns out it was the libglib2.0-0:i386 package. It was already installed earlier, but it had not been fully configured.
It was present in the /lib/i386-linux directory and I had to create a symlink to it include it to the fpc.cfg configuration file used by Free Pascal.
locate libglib | grep ^/lib produced:
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.4002.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.4002.0
I symlinked it with the expected name:
ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so
then added to the Lazarus installations fpc.cfg file
#ifdef cpui386
-Fl/usr/lib32
-Fl/lib/i386-linux-gnu
#endif