Missing Library

sysbox · 01-11-2010, 06:09 PM

I'm trying to build third-party code from source and during linking, I receive this error:

Code:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lg2c
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Yet, when I look for libg2c in /usr/lib, it's there:

Code:

> ls /usr/lib | grep -i g2c
libg2c.so.0
libg2c.so.0.0.0

So what is the problem? Surely, the linker knows enough to look in /usr/lib, right? Could this be a 32-bit vs 64-bit problem?

kbp · 01-11-2010, 07:07 PM

Maybe you need to symlink libg2c.so.0.0.0 to libg2c.so ... or you could try adding '-L/usr/lib'

hth

knudfl · 01-12-2010, 01:45 AM

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# ln -s libg2c.so.0.0.0 libg2c.so

.. is the solution, that works.
The linker will look for libg2c.so only.