mingw linking problem

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Tue Jan 9 08:12:00 GMT 2001


Daniel Lidström wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I get the following error message when compiling. Why can't the linker find
> write?
> /Daniel
> 
> $ make
> g++ -Wall -s -O2 -mno-cygwin -I/usr/local/mingw/include -c broar.cc -o
> broar.o
> g++ broar.o -o broar -s -O2 -mno-cygwin -I/usr/local/mingw/lib -lm

                                          ^^Shouldn't this be -L?

> broar.o(.text+0x90f):broar.cc: undefined reference to `istream::read(char *,
> int
> )'
> broar.o(.text+0xd19):broar.cc: undefined reference to `ostream::write(char
> const
>  *, int)'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [broar.exe] Error 1
> 

You need the MinGW specific libstdc++.a library.  If you have that in
/usr/local/mingw/lib then instead of -I/usr/local/mingw/lib you need to
use -L/usr/local/mingw/lib.

Cheers,
Earnie.

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