I'm really a Python developer exclusively, but I'm making my first foray into C programming now, and I'm having a lot of trouble getting started. I can't seem to get the hang of compilation and including libraries. At this point, I'm just identifying the libraries that I need and trying to compile them with a basic "hello, world" app just to make sure that I have my environment setup to do the actual programming.
This is a DBus backend application that will use GIO to connect to DBus.
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <gio/gio.h>
int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("hello, world");
return 0;
}
Then, I try to compile:
~$ gcc main.c
main.c:2:21: fatal error: gio/gio.h: No such file or directory
#include <gio/gio.h>
I believe that I've installed the correct packages as indicated here, and gio.h exists at /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio.h.
I found a command online to add a search directory to gcc, but that resulted in other errors:
~$ gcc -I /usr/include/glib-2.0/ main.c
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/galloca.h:34:0,
from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:32,
from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gbinding.h:30,
from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h:25,
from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gioenums.h:30,
from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/giotypes.h:30,
from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio.h:28,
from main.c:2:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:34:24: fatal error: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory
#include <glibconfig.h>
^
compilation terminated.
There has to be some relatively simple method for being able to set some options/variables (makefile?) to automatically include the necessary headers. I'm also going to use Eclipse-CDT or Anjuta as an IDE and would appreciate help to fix the import path (or whatever it's called in C).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Use pkg-config (and make). See exactly this answer to a very similar question. See also this and that answers. Don't forget -Wall -g flags to gcc ..
You don't need an IDE to compile your code (the IDE will just run some gcc commands, so better know how to use them yourself).
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Recently I tried to create tool using Windows Update Agent API in C++.
The problem is, even include of the wuapi.h header file causes problems on my machine.
It keeps saying, the header file could not be found.
#include <wuapi.h>
int main(int argc, char **args)
{
return 0;
}
Attempt to compile the simple code ends up predictably:
gcc -o tool.exe file.cpp -pedantic -Wall -Wextra
file.cpp:1:10: fatal error: wuapi.h: No such file or directory
#include <wuapi.h>
^~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
I found almost no information related to this issue on the Internet so far. That means I'm not sure what's wrong at all.
I'm using Windows 10.0.18362.592 but more importantly I'm using mingw-w64 8.1.0 as a compiler.
At this point I'm not sure, whether mingw-w64 supports this part of Win32 API. I found no useful information though.
all.
Compiling simple stuff using the gcc toolchain for several years, today I ran against a curious phenomenon.
I installed Kubuntu 14.04 to a common desktop i686 machine with gcc 4.8.2 in it. But then, trying to build some well coded stuff pulled out from my local repository, I ran against tons of 'undefined reference to' messages. The code compiles, links und runs well under Ubuntu 11.04 / gcc 4.5.2.
I checked the linking process (by -Wl,--verbose to gcc), think it works. It finds all libraries I specify in the link command. An objdump -t myLib.so brings exactly the symbols I'd expect - but the linker doesn't see them.
Checking the pthread library also brings according symbols, except they are suffixed with some #GLIBC... stuff. Didn't check linker/loader tricks so far.
A sample like
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>
static void *fooo (void *xxx) {
char *txt = (char*)xxx;
printf("My job is to print this :'%s'. Bye now!\n", txt);
return 0;
}
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
pthread_t thd;
pthread_create(&thd, NULL, fooo, "A POSIX thread");
sleep(1);
return 0;
}
runs very well on the old system just saying
gcc -l pthread fooo.c && ./a.out
but breaks at the linking step with 4.8.2.
Any idea would be very welcome.
.M
Thanks to sfrehse, JoachimPileborg et al!
Indeed, success depends on argument order. I knew this fact for static linking, but it is new in processing of shared objects with gcc.
Does someone know what the background of this improvement is? It breaks innumerable build processes, and I guess thousands of tomatoes are being made ready against gcc.gnu.org .....
.M
This is puzzling me...
I have a code that looks like this:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pbs_ifl.h>
int doSomeStuff()
{
char *server_name;
int c;
server_name = pbs_default();
c = pbs_connect(server_name);
printf("pbs_errno %d\n",pbs_errno);
// do some stuff
pbs_disconnect(c);
}
When I compile it with:
gcc -static -o executablename sourcefile.c -ltorque
It works allright, compiling with '-static'. pbs_errno is 0 and I can do my stuff.
But if I remove the '-static' flag it starts giving me this message when I run it:
munge: Error: Unable to access "/var/run/munge/munge.socket.2": No such file or directory
So... I start the munge service (munged) and it stops complaining about it, but instead I get pbs_errno=15033 and can't get anything from the cluster (do my stuff).
Any ideas?
I don't know if I delete de question or answer it, but it seems so be solved... so I'm posting the solution here.
I had 2 versions of the lib installed, one via yum other via source.
Since only the compiled code had the static libs, when I was linking -static gcc was linking with the compiled code and when I was linking dynamic it was linking with the yum version.
I just had to enforce the linking with the right libs adding the following flag when liking:
-Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib
For a week I've been struggling with compiling openCV programs. I've tried everything I could possibly find on the internet.
What I did is: I've downloaded OpenCV-2.3.1-win-superpack.exe and followed this official installation guide.
In the CMake (gui) my source was: D:\opencv and build destination was: C:\opencv.
I've also added C:\opencv\install\bin;C:\opencv\bin to my system's PATH variable.
What I want is to compile openCV programs on my Windows OS using MinGW's gcc/g++ compilers.
I've tried various gcc/g++ parameters that I've found on the internet and days playing with the -I and -L options the compiler can never find the openCV functions or structures.
What I am trying to compile:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <cv.h>
#include <highgui.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
// Nothing but create a window
cvNamedWindow("mainWin", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
cvMoveWindow("mainWin", 100, 100);
cvWaitKey(0);
return 0;
}
Error:
Input:
gcc test.c -o test -I"C:\opencv\install\include" -I"C:\opencv\install\include\opencv" -L"C:\opencv\install\bin"
Output:
...\ccK4MfHv.o:test.c:(.text+0xa0b): undefined reference to `cvFree_'
Or with g++:
Input:
g++ test.c -o test -I"C:\opencv\install\include" -I"C:\opencv\install\include\opencv" -L"C:\opencv\install\bin"
Output:
...\ccXCTKa1.o:test.c:(.text+0x1e): undefined reference to `cvNamedWindow'
Side note: trying to compile in VS2005 I get the same error.
Thank you for your time!
In case someone else needs to solve this issue, here's how I got the posted OpenCV/HighGUI sample code to compile in Windows 7 x64 using MinGW, MSYS, and CMake:
build OpenCV from source using MinGW/MSYS/CMake. This is because I could not get the MinGW compiled version in the OpenCV-win-SuperPack to link properly in MinGW/MSYS/Windows 7 x64.
For full reference, here's how I compiled OpenCV:
make sure you have an up-to-date CMake (v2.6 or later) and MinGW (with GCC, G++, and MSYS options) installed
if you want the new Qt-based OpenCV HighGUI front-end, you will need to install Qt 4 (SDK).
download a OpenCV source/superpack version 2.2 or later (I used OpenCV-2.3.1-win-superpack.exe)
unzip the contents to [OPENCV_SOURCE_DIR] (I put it in C:/opencv, so there should be a file at C:/opencv/README for example)
create a [OPENCV_BUILD_DIR] directory elsewhere (I used C:/opencv/build/mingw)
use the CMake-GUI tool, specify the source directory as [OPENCV_SOURCE_DIR], the build directory as [OPENCV_BUILD_DIR], and click "Configure".
you may wish/need to go tweak the options (e.g. I ticked "Qt" and "Qt-OpenGL" entries, then clicked "Configure" again, then had to provide the path to the qmake executable)
once you have finished configuring OpenCV, click "Generate"
in a MSYS terminal, browse to [OPENCV_BUILD_DIR], and run "make" to build the code (this may take a while)
once the has been built properly, run "make install", which collects the built code/libraries/include dirs into [OPENCV_BUILD_DIR]/install folder (or a different folder if you changed the corresponding option when using the CMake-GUI tool)
add [OPENCV_BUILD_DIR]/install/bin folder to the PATH environmental variable. If you do not know how to do this, then I'd recommend using the Path Editor GUI tool.
if you end up using Qt, you will also need to put the bin folder of Qt SDK in the PATH environmental variable. This is the folder that includes qmake.exe.
put the following sample code into a file called test.c. I modified the includes slightly to make them compatible with OpenCV v2.2 and above.
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <opencv/cv.h>
#include <opencv/highgui.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
// Nothing but create a window
cvNamedWindow("mainWin", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
cvMoveWindow("mainWin", 100, 100);
cvWaitKey(0);
return 0;
}
in a MSYS terminal, browse to the folder where you put test.c, and run:
gcc -o test -I"[OPENCV_BUILD_DIR]/install/include" test.c \
-L"[OPENCV_BUILD_DIR]/install/lib" \
-lopencv_core[OPENCV_VERSION] \
-lopencv_imgproc[OPENCV_VERSION] \
-lopencv_highgui[OPENCV_VERSION]
So in my case:
gcc -o test -I"/c/opencv/build/mingw/install/include" test.c \
-L"/c/opencv/build/mingw/install/lib" \
-lopencv_core231
-lopencv_imgproc231
-lopencv_highgui231
Path Editor: http://www.redfernplace.com/software-projects/patheditor/
You have the directory, C:\opencv\install\bin, to locate libraries on the gcc/g++ command line, but I think you'll also need to specify the libraries to use as linker inputs as well. I'm not sure what libraries are part of the OpenCV distribution, but going by the example on the instruction page you linked to, one might be:
-lopencv_calib3d220.dll
You'll probably have to add one or more other ones (that follow the name pattern lib*.a in the C:\opencv\install\bin directory - or maybe some other lib directory that you should be passing in a -L option).
On an almost default install of Ubuntu 11.04 I installed clang.
I am trying to compile this:
#include <cstdlib>
int main(){
return 0;
}
g++ can deal with it just fine, but clang++ errors out: fatal error: 'cstdlib' file not found
Can someone explain why this happens? and what needs to be done to make this work?
I expected clang++ to be a drop-on replacement for g++.
Seems like your clang build is not searching the correct platform include paths. Try checking with
clang -v ...
where it is looking for headers (and check that your platform include paths are there). You might have to add additional include directories (e.g. /usr/include/c++/x.y).
You might want to take a look at the source file lib/Frontend/InitHeaderSearch.cpp, The method AddDefaultCPlusPlusIncludePaths does some distribution/gcc-version specific magic (I had to fix it for my own system once).