[gt-users] build on 64bit with cairo

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Brent,

> hi, i'm trying to build gt for the first time on a 64bit system so
> this is likely somethign i've just
> done wrong but cant figure it out. with 'make', i see the error below.
> why would it skip the libcairo i have installed? does it require a
> particular version?

[snip]

> $ make
> [link libgenometools.so]

There's already the culprit, for building native 64bit binaries please
add '64bit=yes' to the make call:

make 64bit=yes

That should make the build process use the correct library for your
platform. The default is to build 32bit binaries.

Sascha


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