What to do if you cannot find-L name of library?
If you are linking the file as -l then library file name MUST be of the form lib If you only have .so file, rename it! I encountered the same error message. I built the cmocka as a so and tried to link it to my executable.
What to do if libc.a is not installed?
You can try and see if libc.a already exists on your system by calling locate libc.a. If this returns, add an appropriate library flag pointing to the directory that includes libc.a. If libc.a is not installed, you unfortunately need to install the library if you want to compile your library statically.
Where to find LD LIBRARY PATH in Linux?
In most of linux program distributions, for example, games from steam, there is a shell-script which sets the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable which points to all shared libraries needed by the game. You could look at our Rblapi package which uses this very library too.
What to do if glibc is not installed on CentOS?
If this returns, add an appropriate library flag pointing to the directory that includes libc.a. If libc.a is not installed, you unfortunately need to install the library if you want to compile your library statically. Since you stated you are on CentOS, you should be able to accomplish this with yum install glibc-static.
How to fix Clang LD Stack Overflow error?
Kindly, any advice on how to fix this error would be highly appreciated. Replace clang by clang++ or g++. Then -lc++ becomes “automagically” linked. Of course, spend a few days reading the documentation of GCC and of Clang (and of ld from binutils; since both clang++ and g++ are running ld ).
What to do if RPM cannot find libcrypt?
It’s subtle, but enough for rpm to freak out. You can pass –nodeps to RPM to force the static package to install. If it doesn’t work afterward, just remove the package. This error maybe caused by the system cannot find file named libcrypt.so in your /lib directory. It only finds /lib/libcrypt-2.12.so and /lib/libcrypt.so.1.
What to do if libfoo is missing in debianish?
On Debianish platforms, if libfoo is missing, you can frequently install it with something like The -dev version of the package is required for development work, even trivial development work such as compiling source code to link to the library.