Re: Linking error

[Database Administrator]

PG schrieb:
> Sorry accidentally posted last response before i finished the post.
>
> 1. I realized this was a gcc problem so in order to debug the issue, i
> stopped using make. i simply started using the gcc command on command
> line.
> 2. On my machine the following two commands produced the same output
> (error)
> gcc -L. -lodbc32 -o ODBCTest.exe ODBCTest.o
> and
> gcc -L/lib/w32api -lodbc32 -o ODBCTest.exe ODBCTest.o
> gcc was able to find libodbc32.a without specifying -L/lib/w32api.

if -L. works, then either libodbc32.a is in your current directory or
/lib/w32api is set in ld.so.conf


Cheers Hans
>
> Thanks Hans
>
> PG
>
> On Mar 5, 8:18 am, PG wrote:
>> 1. I realized this was a gcc problem so in order to debug the issue, i
>> stopped using make. i simply started using the gcc command on command
>> line.
>> 2. On my machine the following two commands produced the same output
>> (error)
>> gcc -L. -lodbc32 -o ODBCTest.exe ODBCTest.o
>> and
>> gcc -L/lib/w32api -lodbc32 -o ODBCTest.exe ODBCTest.o
>>
>> On Mar 5, 12:56 am, Huber Hans wrote:
>>
>>> PG schrieb:
>>>> I did not know if this was a problem with makefile, cygwin, or the
>>>> specific odbc library, hence i submitted this question to multiple
>>>> groups.
>>>> Anyway, after some more work, found out that the makefile is resulting
>>>> in this command
>>>> gcc -L/lib/w32api -lodbc32 -o ODBCTest.exe ODBCTest.o <-- Fails with
>>>> link errors.
>>> But that is not what you posted earlier on, see your previously posted
>>> error output:
>>> rm: cannot remove `*.exe': No such file or directory
>>> make: [clean] Error 1 (ignored)
>>> gcc -I/usr/include -Iinclude -o ODBCTest.o -c ODBCTest.c
>>> gcc -L. -lodbc32 -o ODBCTest.exe ODBCTest.o
>>> ODBCTest.o:ODBCTest.c.text+0x4a): undefined reference to
>>> `_SQLAllocHandle@12'
>>> no -L/lib/w32api :-)
>>> And hey, this is has nothing to do with databases, this is a simple
>>> gcc,make problem!
>>> Cheers Hans
>