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Reputation: 41

Problem with library libpq in Debian

I'm installing postgresql 8.4 in Debian, put program testlibpq.c from http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/libpq-example.html to directory which have file libpq-fe.h, but after compilation gcc write me

testlibpq.c:(.text+0x4a): undefined reference to `PQconnectdb'
testlibpq.c:(.text+0x5a): undefined reference to `PQstatus'
testlibpq.c:(.text+0x6f): undefined reference to `PQerrorMessage'
testlibpq.c:(.text+0xa9): undefined reference to `PQexec'
testlibpq.c:(.text+0xb9): undefined reference to `PQresultStatus'
testlibpq.c:(.text+0xcf): undefined reference to `PQerrorMessage'
testlibpq.c:(.text+0xf5): undefined reference to `PQclear'
testlibpq.c:(.text+0x10d): undefined reference to `PQclear'
testlibpq.c:(.text+0x121): undefined reference to `PQexec'

... e.t.c. What I must suppose to do to correct work?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3827

Answers (1)

mu is too short
mu is too short

Reputation: 434945

Looks like you're not linking the PostgreSQL library. You should be compiling testlibpq.c with something like this:

gcc -o testlibpq testlibpq.c -lpq

The -lpq tells the linker to link against the PostgreSQL library and that's where PQconnectdb and friends come from.

You may need to tell the compiler where to find the libraries and headers as well, if so then something like this should sort that out:

gcc -o testlibpq -I$(pg_config --includedir) -L$(pg_config --libdir) -o testlibpq $(pg_config --libs)

Upvotes: 7

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