Installing lablgtk on Linux

Question

Hi I am running Linux Mint 18.2 and am trying to install lablgtk for Ocaml (4.05.0). In the README, findlib 1.2.1 is necessary so I tried installing that.

When I try to ./configure for findlib I get two messages:

labltk: not present

camlp4: not present

So I downloaded camlp4 and then tried downloading labltk. When I tried ./configure for labltk I got the message:

Configuring LablTk... runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv

-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl

gcc: error: not: No such file or directory

gcc: error: found: No such file or directory

runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv

-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/local/include not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl

gcc: error: not: No such file or directory

gcc: error: found: No such file or directory

runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/opt/local/include not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl

gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory

runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/sw/include not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl

gcc: error: not: No such file or directory

gcc: error: found: No such file or directory

runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/pkg/include not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/include not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/local/include/tcl8.6 -I/usr/local/include/tk8.6 not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/include/tcl8.6 -I/usr/include/tk8.6 not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/local/include/tcl8.5 -I/usr/local/include/tk8.5 not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/include/tcl8.5 -I/usr/include/tk8.5 not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/local/include/tcl8.4 -I/usr/local/include/tk8.4 not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/include/tcl8.4 -I/usr/include/tk8.4 not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/local/include/tcl8.3 -I/usr/local/include/tk8.3 not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/include/tcl8.3 -I/usr/include/tk8.3 not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/local/include/tcl8.2 -I/usr/local/include/tk8.2 not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl gcc: error: not: No such file or directory gcc: error: found: No such file or directory runtest: gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -o tst -I/usr/include/tcl8.2 -I/usr/include/tk8.2 not found tclversion.c -lm -ldl

gcc: error: not: No such file or directory

gcc: error: found: No such file or directory

tcl.h and/or tk.h not found.

** Configuration summary **

The "labltk" library: not supported

I've checked my package manager and I have tcl, tk, tcl-dev, and tk-dev 8.6.0+9 installed.

I really don't know what to try next but I need the Gtk interface for Ocaml. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to figure out what is generating the "not found" which is interpolating into the command lines configure is generating - it's going to be some further missing dependency.

Have you tried using the distro-packaged versions of all this? They should have all the problems solved. Mint has packages that would seem to be applicable, for example (not sure exactly what you are looking for):

p liblablgtk2-ocaml - runtime libraries for OCaml bindings for G
p liblabltk-ocaml - OCaml bindings to Tcl/Tk (runtime librarie

and so on.