programming X

["spoiler.freeserve.co.uk" <richard@spoiler.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hallo there,
    I recently purchased the O'Reilly Xlib Programming Manual with the
aim of learning how to
write X applications. My problem though is I can't get basicwin.c to
compile up at all!
    I even downloaded the O'Reilly version and that didn't work. The
O'Reilly version complains
that it can't load Xlib.h although my compile line reads
    gcc -g -lX11 -o basicwin basicwin.c
I tried it with a -DSYSV also but to no effect. My version has fits
complaining about undeclared
variables. I suspect I need to include Xfuncproto.h but I'm not certain.

    My main question though is, should the example work exactly as
written in the book or do I
need to generate a GNU/Linux version? If so how? If the book's example
should work
then what am I doing obviously wrong?
    I can post the compilation error messages once I've retyped the
source, I got annoyed and
blew it away.
    Are there any newgroups I should subscribe to for this sort of
information?

thanks