Installing FMOD, major issues.

{Nathan} · Post by **{Nathan}** » Dec 27, 2006 17:23

/usr/share/freebasic/bin/linux/ld: cannot find -lfmod
nathan@laptop:~/code$ whereis fmod
fmod: /usr/include/fmod.h
nathan@laptop:~/code$

Basically, I downloaded FMOD 3.75 from their website. I copied the .so file to /usr/lib and I copied the .h files to /usr/include. I still get the above message. Any help?

Nexinarus · Post by **Nexinarus** » Dec 27, 2006 19:59

try find fmod in your local package repository, like in ubuntu with apt-get (or use the gui Synaptic). installing like that is a no-no usually.

DrV · Post by **DrV** » Dec 27, 2006 22:05

You might have to run ldconfig, but installing it from a distro-specific repository would be better. From a quick search, Ubuntu doesn't seem to have an fmod package, though (which is not surprising, since it's non-free).

{Nathan} · Post by **{Nathan}** » Dec 28, 2006 17:28

I looked all over for a package of FMOD. The unofficial APT repositories didn't wield any results when I searched for FMOD. I'll try running ldconfig.

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Still didn't work.

E.K.Virtanen · Post by **E.K.Virtanen** » Feb 25, 2007 18:22

@{Nathan}.
Do you still have this problem?
I did download FMOD 3.75 and noticed that it's .so is named differently.

/usr/lib/libfmod-3.75.so --> /usr/lib/libfmod.so
and i got it working with out problems.

sir_mud · Post by **sir_mud** » Feb 25, 2007 18:30

yea, i just made libfmod.so a symlink to libfmod-3.75.so on Ubuntu

E.K.Virtanen · Post by **E.K.Virtanen** » Feb 25, 2007 18:46

What i did understand from fmod.org, "FMOD 3.75 Programmers API" is most used and recommended FMOD at this time. Newer versions are not so used yet.
Maybe this should be noted on FB dev.team and "fmod" change to "libfmod.so" to "libfmod-3.75.so"?