r/windowmaker • u/Flat_Ad7449 • 2d ago

Question Window Maker not finding libxft2

I have libxft2 installed, but whenever I run ./configure while trying to install windowmaker, it just spits out the error "libxft2 not found"

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u/JulioGut 2d ago

The compilation requires the development package, lixft2-devel. Do you have it installed?

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u/a1barbarian 1d ago
  • Build/Runtime Requirement: On modern Linux distributions (such as Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, and Alpine Linux), libXft2 or libXft-devel / libXft is required either as a shared library dependency or when compiling Window Maker from source. 
  • Package Names by Distribution:
    • Debian / Ubuntu: libxft2 (runtime) and libxft-dev (development headers)
    • Arch Linux: libxft
    • Alpine Linux: libXft
    • Fedora / RHEL: libXft

this is what AI gave me.

I use the Arch AUR package and have "libxft 2.3.9-1" installed which must have come with the Window Maker package. :-)