[Mingw-users] undefined reference to `GetComputerNameExA'

[Carl S. <stu...@gm...>]

New to in-depth use of MinGW. But it's clearly the right thing!

According to MSDN GetComputerNameExA is in kernel32.dll ,
yet the following program compiles but does not link with my MinGW
installation. Adding -lkernel32 doesn't help. Details below. Any
suggestions how I can get linkage?

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#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  char buf[1024];
  DWORD sz = 1024;
  //GetComputerNameA( buf, &sz);
  GetComputerNameExA( 1, buf, &sz);
  printf( "\"%s\"\n", buf);
}
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msys $ gcc -o gethostname gethostname.c
C:\temp\ccmcT7xy.o:gethostname.c:(.text+0x31):
  undefined reference to `GetComputerNameExA'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

msys $ gcc --version
gcc.exe (GCC) 4.8.1
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

msys $ uname -a
MINGW32_NT-6.1 CARL 1.0.17(0.48/3/2) 2011-04-24 23:39 i686 Msys

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