Re: collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 5:25 PM Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Nov 26, 2022, at 4:17 PM, William Torrez Corea <willitc9888(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 5:00 PM Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 26, 2022, at 3:43 PM, William Torrez Corea <willitc9888(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
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>> I am using libpq: the C application programmer's interface to PostgreSQL.
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>> Compile the code:
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>>> *sudo cc -o testprog testprog1.o testprog2.o -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib -lpq*
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>> But i get the following error:
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>> *collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status*
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>> --
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>> And do you have at hand why the loader (ld) failed?
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> 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
> No package 'libpq' found
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> So libpq is not in *-L/usr/local/pgsql/lib ?* Do you know that libpq is
> installed? You may need to use the Debian package installer to get the
> “dev” environment
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> With kindest regards, William.
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header files for libpq5 (PostgreSQL library), the package is broken.
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With kindest regards, William.

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