Re: Dependencies for native compiling emacs not found

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:37:13 +0000
> 
> >> -lgccjit -lX11 -lcairo >&5
> >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgccjit
> >> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> > So the linker cannot find the libgccjit library.  Do you have it, and
> > if so, is it installed in the directory where the linker looks for
> > libraries, for example where you have libpng16, libcairo, and others.
> >
> > IOW, it sounds like your libgccjit installation is incomplete for some
> > reason.
> 
> Hmm, after looking at the commands Oscar asked, it seems the GCC version
> is 9.3.0, is it compatible with the libgccjit-10-dev?

No, you need to either install GCC 10 or libgccjit-9-dev.

> Sorry for my ignorance of all these gcc things.

No need to apologize, no one can know everything.