Re: [Help-smalltalk] What is libXrender.la, and why do I need it?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Frank J. Lhota wrote:

> I am trying to build GNU Smalltalk 2.1.11 for Windows XP, using the 
> Cygwin development platform. When I run make, it terminates with an 
> error message complaining that it cannot find 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.la. What is this file? Is there some way to 
> make it? Failing that, is there a way to make Smalltalk without this 
> file? Any assistance would be most appreciated.

I think it is part of gtk or X11.  You should seek help in the gtk 
mailing list, and failing that you can configure with --disable-gtk 
and/or --without-gtk.

Paolo