Re: erros when making examples in /src/test/examples

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:11:22PM +0100, Wei Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am just trying to make the frontend programs in /src/test/examples
>
> make all gives errors:
>
>
> gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -Wl,-rpath,/local/scratch-1/ww220/postgresql-7.1.3/lib testlibpq.c -o testlibpq

You need a -lpq in there somewhere.

> Afte searching on the net, I added -lpq but the result is not positive:
>
> gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include testlibpq.c -o testlibpq -lpq
> testlibpq.c: In function `exit_nicely':
> testlibpq.c:14: warning: implicit declaration of function `exit'
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpq
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Did you install it? Look around for a file named libpq.so. Add an option
-L/directory/containing/that/lib after the -I options.

HTH,
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