here's the log - any ideas?

~/bin$ ./vendetta

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers
vendetta: error while loading shared libraries: libXxf86vm.so.1: cannot open sha red object file: No such file or directory
xian@ubuntu:~/bin$ ./vendetta &
[1] 26473
xian@ubuntu:~/bin$
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers
vendetta: error while loading shared libraries: libXxf86vm.so.1: cannot open sha red object file: No such file or directory

[1]+ Exit 127 ./vendetta

An X library is missing. What distro are you using? Some like to only build the static libraries.

How did you install gtk?
Did you install X11 yourself?

The locale warning are nothing special ... probably some missing package.

Ubuntu 64bit

Debian based distro, so either from the original install or via Synaptic Package Manager.

After I looked at it a bit more closely: libXxf86vm.so.1 is in /usr/lib

So far, that's all I know about it.

I know ubuntu. But not the 64 bit version. It works fine here.

It should be in /usr/X11R6/lib

Are you using the 64bit version of ven?

nope, but maybe that's the problem?

/usr/X11R6/lib/ contains

libxf86config.a
libxf86config_pic.a
modules (directory)
X11 (directory)

I tried doing a ln -s libXxf86vm.so (and .so.1) to the X11R6/libs, but that didn't seem to help

this may interest you:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=147072

edit: and this:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=52964

tried the x64 version (or conversion) - made it a bit further.

calling this topic dead and hitting up the AMD64 thread.