Re: Fw: help for a newbie C Programmer

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <blytkerchan at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:55:45PM +0100, Jag wrote:
> Hi Ronald,
>
> that worked, but i'm now getting 'ld: cannot find -lnsl';
Each time the linker tells you it can't find -l<something> it means you're 
missing the corresponding library. Try removing it from the link line and
see what happens. If all goes well - coold. If not, you'll have missing
references to functions that live in a library somewhere - find that 
library with a few well-aimed google searches to solve it, or ask here if
Googling doesn't work.

> The make file line is now
> ld -dy -G -o libbridge.so bridge.o nwutil.o
> jagsocket.o -Bstatic -lc -IIRC -lnsl
>
> is there anywhere i can get more info or what nsl is and what the
> corresponding libraries are in Cygwin?
Yup - google for it (nsl library or somesuch)

> by the way, you are right AIX is Unix. I meant to say that I am porting
> some AIX code onto windows 2k.
That's what I WAGed.

rlc

> Thanks
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ronald Landheer-Cieslak" <blytkerchan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <cygwin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: help for a newbie C Programmer
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:57:23AM +0100, Jag wrote:
> > > > I am trying to port some socket code from AIX onto unix.
> > > AFAIK, AIX is a UNIX platform..
> > >
> > > > When I try to link the code I get ' ld: cannot find -lsocket'
> > > > The line being executed is :
> > > > ld -dy -G -o libbridge.so bridge.o nwutil.o
> > > > jagsocket.o -Bstatic -lc -lsocket -lnsl
> > > > I have searched for socket.a and nsl.a in the cygwin directory but
> they
> > > > aren't there.
> > > > The makefile works on AIX and I was hoping it would be a straight
> > forward
> > > > compilation on windows 2k.
> > > Try removing -lsocket - IIRC the socket functions are built-in in the
> > Cygwin
> > > DLL.
> > > (You should add this as a test in your configury if you have one).
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > rlc
> > >
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> > >
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