Re: [Mingw-users] Newbie Q: Linking to Libraries

[Chris S. <csh...@qu...>]

Thanks!

Just to be clear about this, what you're saying means the problem is 
that libglut32.a does not "match" glut32.dll--is that correct?

Cheers,

Chris

Michael Gerdau wrote:
>>I tried the following:
>>
>>c:\programming\c++\g++> g++ Test.cpp -o Test.exe -lglut32
>>C:\DOCUME~1\CHRIS~1.LAP\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccaecaaa.o(.text+0x11c):Test.cpp: 
>>undefined reference to `__glutInitWithExit@12'
>>C:\DOCUME~1\CHRIS~1.LAP\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccaecaaa.o(.text+0x13d):Test.cpp: 
>>undefined reference to `__glutCreateWindowWithExit@8'
>>C:\DOCUME~1\CHRIS~1.LAP\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccaecaaa.o(.text+0x15d):Test.cpp: 
>>undefined reference to `__glutCreateMenuWithExit@8'
>>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>Process g++ exited with code 1
>>
>>However the output was the same.
>>
>>Any other ideas?
> 
> 
> In your previous post you had the problem thet libglut32.a had not
> been found by the linker. The above output shows that this problem
> is solved by the change of name (-llibglut32 -> -lglut32).
> 
> However now you get honest undefined references which in turn means
> the library does not provide the functions you are using (from the
> linker point of view).
> 
> I don't know libglut32.a but I'd suspect either the corresponding
> header use the wrong declarations or the (import?) library does
> use the wrong naming (e.g. one too many leading '_', stdcall when
> it shouldn't or whatever).
> 
> Googleing for 'libglut32\.a' does provide this URL:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-12/msg00530.html
> 
> HTH, best,
> Michael