Compiling of plotfmt fails due to missing X11 libraries that do exist

[thisisalloneword]

Tried doing:

./compile plotfmt

But gives lots of errors relating to missing libraries

cannot find -lX11: No such file or directory
cannot find -lXext: No such file or directory
cannot find -lpng: No such file or directory
and many more...

However, these libraries do exist in /usr/lib64, for example:

[hussaif1@vis-ws-vm-041 WPS]$ locate libXext
/usr/lib64/libXext.so.6
/usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0

I tried editing configure.wps with LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib64" , but got the same errors . Guessing I am over-looking something obvious?

 

[Ming Chen]

Where did you get the idea to do "./compile plotfmt"? I am not sure what it is ....

 

[thisisalloneword]

I am following the instructions to install WPS ( GitHub - wrf-model/WPS: The official repository for the WRF Preprocessing System (WPS) ) and at the end it says:

The utility plotting programs requiring NCAR Graphics are not
compiled automatically. Library paths must be set correctly
in configure.wps and then compiled using
./compile plotfmt
./compile plotgrids

 

[Ming Chen]

Those are obsolete programs. You should be able to find plotfmt.ncl and plotgrids_new.ncl In WPS/util. These two files replace the old plotfmt.exe and plot grids.exe.