Issue compiling Nannou (Ubuntu)

[dfamonteiro]

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
• Nannou version: 0.17

I was following the Nannou Guide, more specifically the create a project page. Unfortunately, when I was running cargo run --release, I was presented with this compiling error:

(base) daniel@danielLaptop:~/Desktop/scratchpad/my-project$ cargo run --release
   Compiling my-project v0.1.0 (/home/daniel/Desktop/scratchpad/my-project)
error: linking with `cc` failed: exit status: 1
  |
  = note: "cc" "-m64" <wall of text>
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  = note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-render
          /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-shape
          /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-xfixes
          collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
          

error: aborting due to previous error

error: could not compile `my-project`

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.

Luckily I managed to find this issue, installed the required packages, and it compiled with no problem whatsoever.

sudo apt-get install libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev

Perhaps the guide needs to include these packages as well?

[protodrew]

seconding, took me a bit to figure out.

[akhildevelops]

Yaa I was also facing the same issue. Installing them solved it.