undefined reference to (function)

I just added a function (addToMsgQueue) to one of my sourcefiles (messaging.c) and to its header (messaging.h), compiled into a shared library, and now am trying to compile a third file - matchingengine.c - which includes messaging.h. Until I added this new function everything worked fine. Now my compiler gives me "undefined reference to 'addToMsgQueue' ". I cannot get it to compile and don't know where to look for anymore.

here I what is I hope, the relevant code

Code:

here I define the function in messaging.c
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void addToMsgQueue(MsgQueue **aQueue, void *aMsg, int aType) {

	MsgQueue *thisQueue = malloc(sizeof(*thisQueue));
	thisQueue->type = aType;
	thisQueue->msg = aMsg;
	thisQueue->next = NULL;

	if (*aQueue == NULL) {
		*aQueue = thisQueue;
	} else {
		while ((*aQueue)->next != NULL) 
			*aQueue = (*aQueue)->next;
		(*aQueue)->next = thisQueue;
	}
}


Here is the declaration in the messaging.h file
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int checkMessage (char *message);

void addToMsgQueue(MsgQueue **aQueue, void *aMsg, int aType);

struct order *parseOrderMsg(char *aMessageString);

and here where it is called in matchingEngine.c
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	MsgQueue *aQueue;
	
	struct fillReport *aFillReport;
	
	if (*sellBook == NULL)
		return noMatches;
	
	while ((buyOrder.price >= (*sellBook)->order->price) && (buyOrder.actualSize > 0)){

		size = buyOrder.actualSize - (*sellBook)->order->actualSize;
		if (size == 0) {

			aFillReport = malloc(sizeof(struct fillReport));
			aFillReport->type = FILL_REPORT;
			aFillReport->sellOrderID = (*sellBook)->order->ID;
			aFillReport->buyOrderID = buyOrder.ID;
			aFillReport->price = buyOrder.price;
			aFillReport->tradedSize = buyOrder.actualSize;
			addToMsgQueue(&aQueue, aFillReport, FILL_REPORT);
		}

Any ideas?

Are you linking with the shared library that you compiled?

Originally Posted by django

Any ideas?

Yes, you are not linking correctly.
Figure out how to link multiple files using your compiler.
Edit: You need to link to the library as AndrewHunter stated.

Tim S.

Never mind

Jim

Originally Posted by django

I just added a function (addToMsgQueue) to one of my sourcefiles (messaging.c) and to its header (messaging.h), compiled into a shared library, and now am trying to compile a third file - matchingengine.c - which includes messaging.h. Until I added this new function everything worked fine. Now my compiler gives me "undefined reference to 'addToMsgQueue' ". I cannot get it to compile and don't know where to look for anymore.

Sure does sound like a linker error to me... Just like the others already noted.

However; if it was linking before, there may an alternate explaination...
Your new function has an error in it and your library did not recompile, meaning it's finding the library, but it's finding the old version... Turn your warnings on maximum, recompile the library on it's own... heed all warnings and errors as issues to be dealt with.

It was linking before.
I have warnings to maximum (on gcc -Wall).

Come to think of it, everything that I used until now where structures that were in the messaging.h file, this is actually the first time that I try to call a function from messaging.c. So maybe something was not right all the time, but it only surfaces now...

I got it. It was a linking error. I was misled by the fact that it never called something from the messaging.c file and therefore thought the linking was ok, which it was not. Thanks.