ldconfig problem

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Senthil Nathan wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using cygwin for the first time to compile my programs.
> 
> I get the following error during dynamic loading of my libraries.
> And I came to know that there is no concept of "ldconfig".
> 
> So how do I load my dynamic libraries while compiling.
> 
> this is the command i run on linux platform, which works well.
> $ gcc `xml2-config --cflags --libs` -o save save.c  --> /usr/local/lib
> has the library to linked with this.
> 
> but how do i compile this in cygwin.
> and the error I get in cygwin is,
> /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/che02099/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccWWThmX.o:save.c:(.text+0x15c):
> undefined reference
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Order matters on Win32 platforms.  You *may* find the following resolves
the link problem you were seeing:

gcc `xml2-config --cflags` -o save save.c `xml2-config --libs`

Note: I didn't try the above and I have no experience with xml2-config.
YMMV.

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