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Micah
Micah

Reputation: 323

Undefined reference to 'yylex()'

I'm trying to use flex and bison to create a simple scripting language. Right now, I'm just trying to get a calculator working.

I can't get it to compile, though. When I run this makefile:

OBJECTS = hug.tab.o hug.yy.o
PROGRAM = hug.exe

CPP = g++
LEX = flex
YACC = bison

.PHONY: all clean

all: $(OBJECTS)
$(CPP) $^ -o $(PROGRAM)

clean:
$(RM) *.o *.output *.tab.* *.yy.* $(PROGRAM)

%.tab.o: %.tab.cpp
$(CPP) -c -o $@ $<

%.tab.cpp: %.ypp
$(YACC) -vd $<

%.yy.o: %.yy.c
$(CPP) -c -o $@ $<

%.yy.c: %.l
$(LEX) -o $@ $<

%.o: %.cpp
$(CPP) -c -o $@ $<

on my .l and .ypp files, I get this error:

undefined reference to `yylex()'

And if I make the command for all like this:

$(CPP) $^ -o $(PROGRAM) -lfl

it says it couldn't find -lfl. And if I make it like this:

$(CPP) $^ -o -lfl $(PROGRAM)

it goes back to the undefined reference error.

Sorry I'm kind of clueless about this.

EDIT: I have flex installed. I tried changing it from -lfl to C:/GnuWin32/lib/libfl.a (I'm trying to use Windows because Linux has odd problems on my computers and I don't have a Mac yet), but it still has the same error.

Upvotes: 19

Views: 30008

Answers (4)

Aszad Rakin
Aszad Rakin

Reputation: 46

Adding %option noyywrap in .l file and removing the -lfl option works for me.

flex 2.6.4

bison 3.8.2

Upvotes: 3

because_im_batman
because_im_batman

Reputation: 1103

Basically, do either of the following:

  1. Adding %option noyywrap in the flex file and removing the -lfl part in the command would be OK.

  2. #define yylex as extern "C" works too. Since, it prevents C++ mixing up with the name.

  3. Install flex-old rather than flex. flex-old bydefault solves the problem like solution 2 so u dont have to bother about it.

Upvotes: 8

Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd

Reputation: 126468

The problem is that you're compiling hug.yy.c with g++ (treating it as C++) instead of gcc. This is the file that defines yylex, so by compiling it as C++ you end up with a C++ yylex function while the other files are looking for a C yylex function.

Try sticking extern "C" int yylex(); into the first section of your hug.l file so that it will use C linkage for yylex instead of C++

Upvotes: 19

Nadir SOUALEM
Nadir SOUALEM

Reputation: 3515

have you installed the flex library ? if yes, try something like

$(CPP) $^ /path/of/flex/lib/libfl.a -o $(PROGRAM)

Upvotes: 1

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