Re: compliation 4 GL

Posted in 2005

Jonathan Leffler — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:28:21 -0800 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

On 11/25/05, Muthana.AL-Temimi@tu-harburg.hamburg.de wrote: > I have the following problem. I tried to compile 4GL application and I > got the following error: > > c4gl -v -ALL > > [...] > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/collect2 --eh-frame-hdr -m > > elf_i386 > > -dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../crt1.o > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../crti.o > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/crtbegin.o > -L/opt/informix/lib -L/opt/informix/lib/esql -L/opt/informix/lib/tools > -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3 > -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/lib > -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../.. -lifsql -lifasf > -lifgen > -lifos -lifgls -lc -lm -ldl -lcrypt /opt/informix/lib/esql/checkapi.o > -lifglx -l4gsh -lc -lm -ldl -lcrypt -lncurses -lgcc -lgcc_eh -lc -lgcc > -lgcc_eh /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/crtend.o > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../crtn.o > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: > > cannot find -lncurses > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status This has been discussed before - please STFW. You might find: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You might observe that the linker is looking for the ncurses library and can't find it. With an appropriate date range (start Jan 2004, for example, but not as late as Jan 2005), you can search at Google quite effectively: http://tinyurl.com/c7gu4 -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.02 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ sending to informix-list