Enet and gcc compiling

abk4523 · 06-02-2017, 10:01 AM

Sorry I'm lazy. I installed enet 1.3.13 and was trying to compile the host.c file but run into errors:

[bkeane@localhost enet-1.3.13]$ gcc -o host host.c `pkg-config --libs libenet`
Package libenet was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libenet.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

Does anyone know the gcc command to manually link enet and what files I need?

NevemTeve · 06-02-2017, 10:52 AM

Try this:

Code:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
pkg-config --cflags --libs libenet

Edit: You should find out if you actually installed libenet from source, or installed it from binary package, or didn't install at all.

knudfl · 06-02-2017, 10:54 AM

If you did

Code:

$ cd enet-1.3.13/ && ./configure && make
# make install

... then you get /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libenet.pc

Either copy libenet.pc to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/

Or do ..

Code:

$ export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ \
&& gcc -o host host.c `pkg-config --libs libenet`

pan64 · 06-02-2017, 10:57 AM

if you have no libenet no gcc command can help you. Probably you need to install enet or enet related development package.

NevemTeve · 06-02-2017, 11:05 AM

Yeah, I keep forgetting that distributors split packages into 'base' and 'devel' parts (sometime more), eg 'libenet7' and 'libenet-dev'

norobro · 06-02-2017, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by abk4523

... was trying to compile the host.c file ...

May I ask why you are trying to compile that file individually? It is part of the source code of the library.
https://github.com/lsalzman/enet/blob/master/host.c

abk4523 · 06-02-2017, 12:10 PM

I'm compiling the host.c program to verify the install. Is there a better way?

pan64 · 06-02-2017, 12:17 PM

look: I'm a bit confused, at this moment I have no idea what do you want to achieve.
First: what OS is it? What did you install exactly, and how (you told you installed enet 1.3.13)?
What is in your enet-1.3.13 directory? Why do you think host.c is a program? or What do you mean by that?

astrogeek · 06-02-2017, 09:10 PM

As others have said, it is really unclear what you are trying to accomplish.

Please try to restate your question and include:

* Your distro and version
* What, exactly you are trying to accomplish - you ultimate goal, not the goal of the gcc command

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