Thread: how to make a library, again..

  1. 09-06-2020 #1
    Mpetou
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    how to make a library, again..

    Hi, two days ago I asked if it was possible to create a librarie that could be used without having to inform the compiler of its use.
    Apperently this is not the case.

    I started to follow some tutorials to create a dynamically linked library but I always get the same error when trying to compile a source code with it:
    gcc test.c -L. -l_string
    test.c:1:24: fatal error: lib_string.h: No such file or directory
    #include "lib_string.h"
     gcc test.c -l_string
    test.c:1:24: fatal error: lib_string.h: No such file or directory
    #include "lib_string.h"





    Here is a screen shot of all the commands that I've used:
    how to make a library, again..-screenshot-2-jpg

    low, medium and high .c are source codes for the functions that I want to put in my library.
    mylib.h is the header that contains a prototype for every function.
    test.c is a tiny script to see if the library works.
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    What compiler/IDE are you using?

    It looks like your compiler can't find the header file lib_string.h. Does the file exist? If it does exist where exactly is it located? Is it in the same directory as the source file?

    By the way I don't see a file named lib_string.h in your "ls" lines

    Show your code, all of it.
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    > mylib.h is the header that contains a prototype for every function.
    Then your test.c should have
    #include "mylib.h"
    not
    #include "lib_string.h"
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimblumberg View Post
    What compiler/IDE are you using?

    It looks like your compiler can't find the header file lib_string.h. Does the file exist? If it does exist where exactly is it located? Is it in the same directory as the source file?

    By the way I don't see a file named lib_string.h in your "ls" lines

    Show your code, all of it.
    Hi, I use gcc and vim.

    Indeed, it turns out that i should not include lib_string.h.
    So I tried without it but now I get the following error:
    ➜ medium_tutorial gcc -L. test.c -l_string
    /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.9.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lmylib
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

    Do you guys have any idea of what this means.
    If I understand correctly(which I probably don't) ld is used to link files so I thought that maybe lib_string.so wasn't in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH but it is!
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