Compliation issue <Unable to find libevent>

[Vivek]

| #include <sys/types.h>
| #include <sys/time.h>
| #include <stdlib.h>
| #include <event.h>
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
|                struct event_base *tmp_event= event_init();
|                event_base_free(tmp_event);
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:22667: result: no
configure:22694: error: Unable to find libevent
What is the issue here ?
Version:
gearmand-1.1.4

[Vivek]

I was having libevent in custom path. It worked after doing export for LD_LIBRARY_PATH. 

[Rohan Thakur]

hi vivek

I am having same error of unable to find libevent while running ./configure for gearman 1.5.1 I have placed the libevent2.0.21 folder after extraction in cygwin/home/usr folder where my gearman and boost root folder resides...and I am running ./configure from gearman folder.....how did you resolved this problem??