Re: help with link error: undefined reference to XGetHostname

[Bob McGowan <rmcgowan at veritas dot com>]

Thanks.

Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> 
> > $ make
> > rm -f xtetris.exe
> > gcc -o xtetris.exe -O2 -pedantic -fno-strength-reduce
> > -fnative-struct -m486 -g -Wall     -L/usr/X11R6/lib main.o
> > init.o shape.o support.o notify.o window.o
> > score.o                  draw.o -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE
> > -lXext -lX11 -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lXpm -lm
> > score.o(.text+0x225): undefined reference to `_XGetHostname'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [xtetris.exe] Error 1
> >
> 
> OK, XGetHostname supposed to be libX11.a, but it is not.  I will
> provide a fix by the mid of next week.
> 
> Sorry for troubles.
> 
> Suhaib
> 
> > Looking at this, I see some libraries included twice.  And
> > the second to last, Xpm, I added to get past xpm related link errors.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > >
> > > Do yu care to post the out put of compile link error messages.
> > > If it is tetris issue, I may not be able to help you but
> > > will do my best to help you if the link time errors were due to
> > > Cygwin/XFree86,
> > > which I doubt.
> > >
> > > However without seeing what kind of errors you are getting, I cannot
> > > be of any help to you.
> > >
> > > Suhaib
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Bob McGowan [mailto:rmcgowan@veritas.com]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:24 PM
> > > > To: XFree86, Cygwin
> > > > Subject: help with link error: undefined reference to XGetHostname
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I had several other link errors which I have successfully
> > > > fixed, based on searching the list archive.  But I cannot
> > > > find any reference in the archives to this routine.  I
> > > > also did ran nm on the X11 lib files and did not find it.
> > > > I'm trying to compile Xtetris, if that helps.
> > > >
> > > > What am I missing?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Bob McGowan
> > > > Staff Software Quality Engineer
> > > > VERITAS Software
> > > > rmcgowan@veritas.com
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > Bob McGowan
> > Staff Software Quality Engineer
> > VERITAS Software
> > rmcgowan@veritas.com
> >

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Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
rmcgowan@veritas.com