C/DBus Compilation Problems

Slokunshialgo · 10-04-2008, 10:25 PM

I'm trying to write a small program to use the DBus API, but I cannot get it to compile.

Code:

#include <dbus/dbus.h>

int main(int arc, char* args[]) {
	DBusError err;
	DBusConnection* conn;

	dbus_error_init(&err);
	conn = dbus_bus_get(DBUS_BUS_SESSION, &err);


	return 0;
}

When I try compiling it using gcc -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include main.c I get the following errors:

Code:

main.c:(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `dbus_error_init'
main.c:(.text+0x2b): undefined reference to `dbus_bus_get'

System: Fedora 9; x86

I have the development files installed, and when I edit the files in an editor (Anjuta, or Eclipse/CDT) the functions are suggested by their autocomplete functions, so I assume they should work.

Anybody know what I might be missing, or what I can do to make this work?

Slokunshialgo · 10-05-2008, 08:59 AM

I wound up getting an answer from somebody else. I was told to run pkg-config --libs dbus-1 and include the output (-L/lib -ldbus-1) in my compilation command. This works, and it all compiles nicely.

gcc -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -L/lib -ldbus-1 main.c is the full line now.