# Make error GL/glx.h not found (linux mint 14)

**URL:** <https://discourse.glfw.org/t/make-error-gl-glx-h-not-found-linux-mint-14/537>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [March 25, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/make-error-gl-glx-h-not-found-linux-mint-14/537 "2013-03-25T12:59:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/make-error-gl-glx-h-not-found-linux-mint-14/537/1 "2013-03-25T12:59:19Z")

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**[justsuds](https://sourceforge.net/u/justsuds/)** wrote on [Monday, March 25, 2013](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/92f39fd6/#af21):

When trying to compile for X11 with:

make x11

the following output is presented:

cd lib/x11 && make -f Makefile.x11  
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/suds/Downloads/glfw-2.7.7/lib/x11' cc -c -I. -I.. -D_GLFW_USE_LINUX_JOYSTICKS -O2 -Wall -o enable.o ../enable.c In file included from ../internal.h:92:0, from ../enable.c:31: ./platform.h:47:20: fatal error: GL/glx.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[1]: *** [enable.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory`/home/suds/Downloads/glfw-2.7.7/lib/x11’

This is on Linux Mint 14 (based on Ubuntu 12.10). Any advice would be appreciated.

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/make-error-gl-glx-h-not-found-linux-mint-14/537/2 "2013-03-25T13:19:11Z")

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**[justsuds](https://sourceforge.net/u/justsuds/)** wrote on [Monday, March 25, 2013](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/92f39fd6/#77f1):

After finally choosing the correct set of keywords to google, this has been resolved. I was missing the glx and glu dev packages for my hardware.

I used the Mesa libs, but I know that mesa is a software implementation of OpenGL. How widely supported are third party drivers nowadays on linux? I remember ten years ago it was hell.