Sender: owner-postgres95@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: andrew_yu Received: from methi.ndim.edrc.cmu.edu (METHI.NDIM.EDRC.CMU.EDU [128.2.214.230]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.3) with SMTP id XAA16400 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:59:05 -0800 Message-Id: <199511030759.XAA16400@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Received: from localhost by methi.ndim.edrc.cmu.edu id aa01806; 3 Nov 95 2:58 EST X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Peter Hlivka , postgres95@postgres.Berkeley.EDU cc: hlivka@zexel.com Reply-to: rp2y+@CS.cmu.edu Subject: Re: linking with the libpq library References: <9511030113.AA07892@ZEXEL> In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 1995 17:13:25 PST." <9511030113.AA07892@ZEXEL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 02:58:46 -0500 From: Robert Patrick Resent-To: postgres95-redist Resent-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 95 23:59:06 -0800 Resent-From: pglite Resent-XMts: smtp > HELP!-when I try to link libpq.a I get the error ld: -llibpq.a:expected libx.so(.major.minor.xxx). If someone knows the problem I would appreciate hearing from them. The script used to compile my frontend program is listed below. > > gcc -I/db_work/hlivka/usr/local/postgres95/include -L/db_work/hlivka/usr/local/postgres95/lib -llibpq.a t1.c How about this???: % gcc -I/db_work/hlivka/usr/local/postgres95/include -L/db_work/hlivka/usr/local/postgres95/lib t1.c -lpq If you would look at the man page for gcc, you would realize that any -lfoo inserts the "lib" and ".a" around the argument to -lfoo (i.e., -lfoo == libfoo.a). Also, if t1.c includes function calls that are defined in libpq.a, libpq.a must follow t1.c in the compile line! If you insist on using libpq.a, do it this way: % gcc -I/db_work/hlivka/usr/local/postgres95/include t1.c /db_work/hlivka/usr/local/postgres95/lib/libpq.a Robert =============================================================================== To unsubscribe from the Postgres95 mailing list, send mail with the subject line "DEL" to "postgres95-request@postgres.Berkeley.EDU". ============ URL: http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres95/ ===========