cannot find -levent

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 04:45:57PM +0000, Troy Blank wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have used cygwin for awhile now and love i, having an issue that is very
>confusing to me.
>
>So I am trying to install django-socketio via pip install django-socketio
>and after it succesffully  I always get the error (I install things through
>pip all the time so I know pip is stable):
>
>//--------------------------------------------------
>running build_ext
>
>building 'gevent.core' extension
>
>gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
>-I/usr/include/python2.6 -c gevent/core.c -o
>build/temp.cygwin-1.7.9-i686-2.6/gevent/core.o
>
>gcc -shared -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base
>build/temp.cygwin-1.7.9-i686-2.6/gevent/core.o
>-L/home/tblank/.virtualenvs/raspberry_pi/lib/python2.6/config -levent
>-lpython2.6 -o build/lib.cygwin-1.7.9-i686-2.6/gevent/core.dll
>
>/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot
>find -levent
>
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
>//-------------------------------------------------
>
>full error can be found here: http://dpaste.com/1053771/
>
>I have installed libevent-2.0.21-stable from http://libevent.org/ ... and
>ran a ./configure, make and make install without any errors and I can see
>libevent.a in \usr\local\lib.
>
>I assume gcc can't find my library files for libevent but I have failed to
>find anything online that tells me how to tell gcc where those files are or
>if in fact that is the issue.
>
>Any information would be greatly appreciate.

Does adding -L/usr/local/lib to your gcc link line help?

cgf

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