I am getting these linker errors when i build my program using expat xml library .
3288 /tmp/ccFZziQa.o: In function `xml::node::load_xml(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >)':
3289 node.cpp:(.text+0xdec): undefined reference to `XML_SetElementHandler'
3290 node.cpp:(.text+0xe08): undefined reference to `XML_SetCharacterDataHandler'
3291 node.cpp:(.text+0xe2c): undefined reference to `XML_SetUserData'
3292 node.cpp:(.text+0xe72): undefined reference to `XML_Parse'
3293 node.cpp:(.text+0xeaa): undefined reference to `XML_GetErrorCode'
3294 node.cpp:(.text+0xeb1): undefined reference to `XML_ErrorString'
3295 node.cpp:(.text+0xecb): undefined reference to `XML_GetCurrentLineNumber'
build instruction :
g++ -v -L /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lexpat node.cpp
library is there on filesystem:
$ locate libexpat.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1.6.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so
Ran strace to check if any obvious issue :
2170 [pid 3361] open("/usr/include/expat.h", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = 4
3172 [pid 3364] stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=166032, ...}) = 0
3173 [pid 3364] open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so", O_RDONLY) = 7
3174 [pid 3364] open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so", O_RDONLY) = 8
3175 [pid 3364] stat("/tmp/ccFZziQa.o", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=89008, ...}) = 0
3176 [pid 3364] open("/tmp/ccFZziQa.o", O_RDONLY) = 8
3177 [pid 3364] open("/tmp/ccFZziQa.o", O_RDONLY) = 9
3172 [pid 3364] stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=166032, ...}) = 0
3173 [pid 3364] open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so", O_RDONLY) = 7
3174 [pid 3364] open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so", O_RDONLY) = 8
3175 [pid 3364] stat("/tmp/ccFZziQa.o", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=89008, ...}) = 0
3176 [pid 3364] open("/tmp/ccFZziQa.o", O_RDONLY) = 8
3177 [pid 3364] open("/tmp/ccFZziQa.o", O_RDONLY) = 9
when everything loaded properly why linker throws these errors , any idea ?
I can lookup the function in symbol table:-
$ nm -DC /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so |grep XML_SetElementHandler
000000000000d4a0 T XML_SetElementHandler