Question
Jeff Lu
jklcom@mindspring.com
Tue Oct 24 08:11:00 GMT 2000
I compiled it with CFLAGS=-DGDBM_STATIC such as this
gcc -o /home/jeff/getdata.cgi getdata.c -lgdbm utils.c -DGDBM_STATIC
This takes care of the rename problem but am still getting dbm_open,
dbm_fetch etc. as undefined reference
I've even tried to explicitly link it to /usr/lib/libgdbm.a but that didn't
help
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles S. Wilson [ mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu ]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 8:29 PM
To: Jeff Lu
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Question
Jeff Lu wrote:
>
> I've downloaded and installed cygwin & gdbm-1.8.0.
Please read /usr/doc/Cygwin/gdbm-1.8.0.README.
Basically, gdbm provides wrapper header files so that you can use gdbm
to provide dbm and ndbm functions -- but you must link to the gdbm
library to do so. -lgdbm.
Also, since by default ld will link using the dll, the header files
reflect this. That's why you get _imp__dbm_open. If you want to link
statically, you have to (a) set CFLAGS=-DGDBM_STATIC when compiling, and
use "-static" when linking. Then, functions don't get renamce (that's
part (a)) and you link to the statlib instead of the dll-importlib
(that's part (b)).
Please search the archives; there have been several links to informative
webpages posted recently concerning dll's and how they work.
--Chuck
>
> When tried to compile programs that uses dbm functions such as:
>
> gcc -o /home/jeff/getzip.cgi getzip.c utils.c -lndbm
>
> I got /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lndbm
>
> gcc -o /home/jeff/getzip.cgi getzip.c utils.c -lgdbm
> I got errors on dbm_open, dbm_fetch etc as undefined reference
>
> Please see attached error file.
>
> This is weird. Some dbm calls got renamed to "_imp__dbm_open" during
> compile.
>
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