libcrypto equivalent missing on Windows - windows

I have a C file that I need compiled on Windows7. I have installed MinGW for gcc. I also need OpenSSL, so followed the links from their site and downloaded the full developer package from Shining Light Productions (along with the 64-bit Redistro package from MS).
When I try to compile my file using this command:
gcc -D_WIN32 -O2 -shared -Wl,--kill-at -lcrypto -I%JAVA_HOME%\include -I%JAVA_HOME%\include\win32 -IC:\OpenSSL-Win64\include -LC:\OpenSSL-Win64\lib -lm -std=c99 osaccess.c -o libosaccess.dll
I get the error:
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lcrypto
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
What I find particularly peculiar, is the unix-style forward slashes used in the error. Also, the path is correct, but the case is not. The valid path is C:\MinGW\bin... I also cannot find any crypto library (either libcrypto.* or crypt*lib.*) anywhere, so I guess this is why it cannot find -lcrypto. I would've thought that this would've come with the full install. Has anyone else encountered this before, or know of why it may be happening?

The correct library name for the Shining Light distribution is libeay32 (found at lib/libeay32.lib). This library corresponds to libcrypto.

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How to create .so shared libraries with undefined references - gcc

I have inherited a Makefile which builds a .so file. It is linking with -lcrypto from OpenSSL on Ubuntu with gcc 4.7.4. Critically, it is NOT linking with -lssl nor -ldl, and when I run nm -g thelib.so, it only has the ~15 symbols from openssl crypto. However, they are all U (undefined).
I'm refactoring the Makefile on another Ubuntu machine. When I link with -lcrypto, it fails due to undefined symbols needed from dl. When I add linking to -ldl, those errors go away and linking succeeds. However, my .so file is 1.5 MB bigger than the original, and there are at least a hundred symbols related to SSL, which are all T (defined), which seem to indicate that -lssl is happening implicitly somehow.
While it would seem prudent and good that they are all defined in my case, I need to figure out how to produce the same result just as it is.
So, my question is, how does one get GCC to allow the linking of a .so file and accept undefined references? I've compared our commands, and there are little differences which I've tried to eliminate, but nothing seems to work. I read that it might be related to -Wl,--no-as-needed, but i'm using that. Here's my linker flags.
g++ -shared -o mylib.so myobjs.o -fPIC -lstdc++ -lm -z defs -Wl,-soname,mylib -Wl,--no-as-needed -lpthread -lcrypto -lz
On the other system (the one with the larger result), OpenSSL has apparently not been built as a shared object, only as a static library (but maybe as PIC, so that you can link the result into a shared object). You will have to install the packages that provide the shared object and the corresponding .so symbolic link.

What is causing g++ to produce the error: "ld.exe cannot find -lopencv_world310"?

I am attempting to build an application using g++ that is composed of several source files and also uses OpenCV 3.1.0.
The CMD command is:
g++ -o home_surveillance -static -std=c++11 -m64 -IC:\Tools\OpenCV\opencv\build\include -LC:\Tools\OpenCV\opencv\build\x64\vc14\lib -lopencv_world310 configuration_manager.cpp events.cpp image_processor.cpp main.cpp response_module.cpp scheduler.cpp
The error produced is:
C:/Program Files/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.2.0-posix-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lopencv_world310
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
I have been trying various things and searching for answers for a couple days now. I should note that the application builds properly in Visual Studio 2015. I have tried compiling the source files using g++ with the -c option and they all seem to compile fine. It is just the linking phase that produces an error.
Things I have tried:
Just about every possible combination of the specified command. (Modifying order of the options, -lopencv_world310.a, -lopencv_world310.lib, -lopencv_world310, -l"full_path"+"opencv_world310", etc..)
Checked that all the paths and filenames are correct.
Reinstalled mingw to make sure I was using mingw-w64 since this is a 64-bit application.
Running CMD as admin thinking maybe CMD could not access the path specified with -L option.
Googling and reading every post I could find. (Most posts about "ld.exe cannot find "library_name" are a result of someone using "library_name".a or "library_name".lib as input to the -l option).
Reading mingw documentation on the use of GCC/g++ to ensure I wasn't missing anything obvious.
Praying to Bjarne Stroustrup.
Ritual sacrifice involving a Pentium 2.

Can't make FestVox compile due to missing -leststring and missing libeststring.a

So I have installed / compiled speech_tools, and Festival (2.3) using Cygwin on my Win8.1 machine to the point that I can successfully produce speech using this command:
echo "hello world" | \src\main\festival --tts
The next step is for me to get FestVox running. I have downloaded FestVox 2.6 and I have run ./configure; however, the 'make' step is giving me trouble, producing this error:
gcc -O3 -Wall -o phonealign phonealign_main.o -LC:/cygwin64/Festival/build
/speech_tools/lib -lestools -lestbase -leststring -lncurses -lstdc++ -lm -lwinmm -luser32
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -leststring
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:80: recipe for target 'phonealign' failed
So, I looked at my Makefile at where it might be trying to look for this file, and it looks like in that directory (build\speech_tools\lib) I am missing a libeststring.a partner for my libeststring.lib. Both libestbase and libestools have .lib and .a files in that directory.
At what step did I go wrong?? Should a libeststring.a have been created at some point??? When? How can I fix this?
I think the problem is that you should use compiler in Windows instead of gcc within Cygwin. The role in Cygwin for building Festival is to run configure to generate a Makefile for VC. Then run nmake in Windows command line not make within Cygwin.
Cygwin cannot build a native Windows application like what MINGW does. Application build in Cygwin can only run within Cygwin.
*.a is the static library for Linux, which is built by gcc. *.lib is the static library for Windows, which is built by VC.
So I suggest you taking a look at README, INSTALL files in FestVox. To find whether there is description for make a Makefile for Windows like process "3. Make makefile for VC in Cygwin" in my document (http://www.eguidedog.net/doc_build_win_festival.php)
Cameron

Very strange linker behavior

This is strange because I was able to get the error below to go away by removing the reference to libm.
gcc -o example example.o -Wl -L/home/kensey/cdev/lib -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmysqlclient -lpthread -lz -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lm -lrt -ldl -lcdev -L/home/kensey/www.tools/gplot-lib -lgplot -L/home/kensey/www.tools/gd1_3ret -lgd -lxml2 -lcurl
/usr/bin/ld: /home/kensey/www.tools/gplot-lib/libgplot.a(set.o): undefined reference to symbol 'floor##GLIBC_2.2.5'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'floor##GLIBC_2.2.5' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
So, if I remove the -lm part of the command, I do not get the error. However, I wonder if anyone knows as to why removing a reference to a library that is needed would fix this. How does the linker know which library to look in? Also - is there a way to query a built executable and say 'which library did you resolve the reference to 'floor'? obviously, there is something going on that I don't understand, and that bothers me...
The explanation to what's happening is very simple:
Your libgplot.a depends on libm.so, yet the order of -lm and -lgplot on the link line is wrong.
The order of libraries on the link line does matter. In general, system libraries (-lpthread, -lm, -lrt, -ldl) should follow everything else on the link line.
When you remove -lm from the link line, libm.so.6 is still pulled into the link by some other library that appears later on the link line (libgd, libxml2 or libcurl) because that library depends on libm.so.6. But now libm.so.6 is in correct place on the link line, and so everything works.
if I put -lm at the end of the link command, listing it as the last library, I do not get the error.
That confirms above explanation.
I've solved the same problem with export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -lm"
Perhaps, your library search paths (/usr/local/lib/ or /usr/lib/, ...) do not contain 64bit libm so gcc cannot locate it if you specify with l flag. If you only specify only the directory it looks like it can find the right one. So you can try:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
and use -lm
Hard to tell. Because there are custom library directories in the command line it's conceivable that -lm links an incompatible alternative version. Without -lm the linker could pull in another version of it because it's needed by one of the libraries you link.
To make sure strace both invocations and see where libm.so is coming from in both cases.
BTW, -Wl switch seems to do nothing and -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu is mentioned twice.
Just to add to the list of answers, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange It is informative. It isn't relevant to the question asked above, but, the explanation relates to the error message /usr/bin/ld: note: 'some_reference' is defined in DSO some.so so try adding it to the linker command line
One explanation could be:
It's possibly there is a weakly linked function foo defined outside of libm that is replaced by a strongly linked version of foo defined inside libm, and it is this strongly linked version that calls the undefined function.
This would explain how adding a library can cause an undefined function error.
I just ran into a similar problem; I remember that the order of the libraries did not matter (at least not in the cases I worked with) in the past for gcc. In this question here somebody noticed that the behaviour seems to have changed between 4.4 and 4.5 .
In my case, I got rid of the error message by doing the linking at:
g++ -Wl,--copy-dt-needed-entries [options] [libraries] [object files] -o executable-file
I faced the similar issue because I had manually updated the dev toolchain on my centOS machine to solve a VScode Remote dependency and was linking C++ library with c code.
In my case, I solved this by adding in the Makefile:
LDFLAG=-Wl,--copy-dt-needed-entries
I also pointed my gcc to the version I wanted (After updating toolchain, gcc pointed to the toolchain : /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/gcc)
CC=\usr\bin\gcc which is (gcc version 4.4.7)
Use this:
administrator#administrator-Veriton-M200-H81:~/ishan$ gcc polyscanline1.cpp -lglut -lGLU -lGL -lm

GCC - Linking is unsuccessful

and sorry for my not really good english. I'll try my best :)
I am trying to compile a addin for my Casio graphic calculator in C. This works without problems when using the official SDK. Because it is only available for Windows, I want to use gcc.
So I got sh-rtems-gcc and it's binutils from macports and tried to compile my program according to this instructions. I copy-pasted the described addin.ld and crt0.s and placed my main.c and libfxsys.a (from the same guys as the instructions mentioned above) in the same directory. The sub-dir include contains fxsys' headers. I verified the presence of all the functions of the library in the .a file with nm.
When using this command for compilation:
sh-rtems-gcc-4.2.3 -m3 -mb -nostdlib -I./include -c crt0.s main.c
Everything works fine. But then im trying to link:
sh-rtems-gcc-4.2.3 -m3 -mb -nostdlib -L. -o myaddin.elf -Taddin.ld crt0.o main.o -lfxsys
and get the following error:
main.o: In function `__main':
main.c:(.text+0x248): undefined reference to `_Bdisp_AllClr_VRAM'
...
... (--- cut 16 other errors in the same format ---)
...
main.c:(.text+0x360): undefined reference to `_Sleep'
./libfxsys.a(locate.o): In function `_locate':
locate.c:(.text+0x28): undefined reference to `_locate_OS'
collect2: ld gab 1 als Ende-Status zurück
All the missing symbols are in the libfxsys.a. I have verified this with nm.
I have already played with the positions of the library in the command, as this is often mentioned as a source of failure in other posts found in google, but without success. I also tried adding and removing the -lgcc option that is used in the above mentioned instructions, without success.
My Host-Machine is a Intel Mac, OS X 10.6
Because I have no idea how to solve this problem, and get to compile my program, I have to ask: What am I doing wrong? How can I compile my program without using the SDK?
Thanks in advance,
xythobuz
Edit:
I have also tried linking with:
sh-rtems-ld -EB -L. -o myaddin.elf -Taddin.ld crt0.o --start-group main.o libfxsys.a --end-group
But it produces the same output as above.
I can't say the exact problem, but would investigate like this:
Find the library that contains the missing symbols. Use nm to see symbol names
Once you know which library contains the symbols make sure you're linking to it, and in the correct order. Try using recursive symbol resolution options -( -) with your linker.

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