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Re: undefined references compiling gcc with ncurses
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Jeff Scudder <jeffrey dot scudder at gmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:48:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: undefined references compiling gcc with ncurses
- References: <d75352a00510251638n27cc0de1k2313b470588547a9@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Jeff Scudder wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am a curses newbie and having trouble running a simple curses
> program. I haven't run into a discussion thus far on the specific
> problem I'm having and I imagine there is a simple solution. My
> program is named ctest.c and is as follows:
> [snip]
> And I compile using
>
> gcc -lncurses ctest.c
^^^^^^^^^
> When linking I get an undefined reference for each curses function.
> I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.
Classic newbie mistake. Libraries should follow source/object files on
the gcc command line. "gcc ctest.c -lncurses" should work. Not
Cygwin-specific.
HTH,
Igor
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