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Justin:
I have download some external libraries with extended name .a/.lib,  I want to link those libraries to my own project. I have configured the linker and seach path. But there are always problems. I cannot see the API lists of those libraries, and I cannot call the functions enveloped in those libraries.
My OS is Vista, and I am using the lastest version of CB.
What's wrong? Help!
 

Ceniza:
Enable full compiler logging and copy&paste the problem here.

From Morten's signature: Logging: Settings->Compiler & Debugger->tab "Other"->Compiler logging="Full command line"

Justin:

-------------- Build: Debug in testC ---------------

mingw32-g++.exe -Llib  -o bin\Debug\testC.exe obj\Debug\main.o    lib\libcluto.a
obj\Debug\main.o: In function `main':
D:/CppProjects/testC/main.c:73: undefined reference to `_CLUTO_VP_ClusterRB
'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)
1 errors, 0 warnings
 

Justin:
the document of those libraries said the libraries were compiled with gcc,  so did I use the wrong compiler, that is to say not mingw32-g++.exe,  but mingw32-gcc.exe?

Jenna:

--- Quote from: Justin on December 05, 2008, 09:57:57 am ---the document of those libraries said the libraries were compiled with gcc,  so did I use the wrong compiler, that is to say not mingw32-g++.exe,  but mingw32-gcc.exe?

--- End quote ---

I don't think so.
gcc is either the gnu-compiler-collection or the c-compiler included in gcc, in both cases it should not be causing your problem.

But if the lib really was compiled with mingw32-gcc it's a c-library and you have to declare the functions inside the header as extern "c" to make them usable with c++.

google for extern "c", to see how you can do this.

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