Re: collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

William Torrez Corea <willitc9888(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 5:00 PM Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Nov 26, 2022, at 3:43 PM, William Torrez Corea <willitc9888(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>> Compile the code:
>>> *sudo cc -o testprog testprog1.o testprog2.o -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib -lpq*
>>> But i get the following error:
>>> *collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status*

The useful info would be in the lines right before that one. That
one just tells you that cc is giving up because of prior errors.

>> And do you have at hand why the loader (ld) failed?

> Package libpq was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libpq.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

I do not believe that a bare cc invocation would produce any
complaints about pkg-config. Are you showing us something
unrelated to the stated command?

BTW, it's pretty hard to believe that you need to use sudo
for this.

regards, tom lane