As alluded to in my post yesterday, I'm trying to compile a common C utility
in Windows.
It's only reference is to zlib.h, which needs zconf.h and in turn libz.a
On Unix I've compiled this with success by running: gcc -lz -o foo.exe foo.c
(where -lz is a link to 'z' or libz.a)
I've placed zlib.h and zconf.h in the VC include folder, and libz.a and
libz.so in the lib folder.
When I run: cl foo.c
from the VS2005 command line tool, I get the following errors (which are the
same errors I would receive on Unix without linking to the libz.a library by
the -lz commnd line argument). I was under the impression that cl called the
linker automatically, so what am I doing wrong here?
/out:foo.exe
foo.obj
foo.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _inflate referenced in
function _main
foo.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _inflateInit_ referenced
in function _main
foo.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
Thanks in advance!
Evan 4 2611
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As alluded to in my post yesterday, I'm trying to compile a common C
utility in Windows.
It's only reference is to zlib.h, which needs zconf.h and in turn libz.a
On Unix I've compiled this with success by running: gcc -lz -o foo.exe
foo.c
(where -lz is a link to 'z' or libz.a)
I've placed zlib.h and zconf.h in the VC include folder, and libz.a and
libz.so in the lib folder.
When I run: cl foo.c
from the VS2005 command line tool, I get the following errors (which are
the same errors I would receive on Unix without linking to the libz.a
library by the -lz commnd line argument). I was under the impression that
cl called the linker automatically, so what am I doing wrong here?
It is calling the linker automatically. These errors are in fact being
generated by the linker, complaining it doesn't know how to resolve them.
You need a libz.lib and libz.dll somewhere. If the libz.lib is not in the
standard LIB path, you need to explicitly reference it from the command
line.
Brian
Brian,
I have tried everything in these regards with placing files in the
lib/include directories. This entire C compilation should have taken about a
minute, but I've wasted hours on it to no avail. I've been to zlib.net and
tried to make heads or tails of this stuff, but I'm honestly at a loss for
straight forward instructions.
Evan
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>As alluded to in my post yesterday, I'm trying to compile a common C utility in Windows. It's only reference is to zlib.h, which needs zconf.h and in turn libz.a
On Unix I've compiled this with success by running: gcc -lz -o foo.exe foo.c (where -lz is a link to 'z' or libz.a)
I've placed zlib.h and zconf.h in the VC include folder, and libz.a and libz.so in the lib folder.
When I run: cl foo.c from the VS2005 command line tool, I get the following errors (which are the same errors I would receive on Unix without linking to the libz.a library by the -lz commnd line argument). I was under the impression that cl called the linker automatically, so what am I doing wrong here?
It is calling the linker automatically. These errors are in fact being
generated by the linker, complaining it doesn't know how to resolve them.
You need a libz.lib and libz.dll somewhere. If the libz.lib is not in the
standard LIB path, you need to explicitly reference it from the command
line.
Brian
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Brian,
I have tried everything in these regards with placing files in the
lib/include directories. This entire C compilation should have taken about
a minute, but I've wasted hours on it to no avail. I've been to zlib.net
and tried to make heads or tails of this stuff, but I'm honestly at a loss
for straight forward instructions.
Just like gcc needs -lz to tell it to look for libz.a, cl needs to have
"zlib.lib" or some such on the command line to instruct it to link with that
library.
>
Evan
"Brian Muth" <bm***@mvps.orgwrote in message
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>> "wxforecaster" <wx**********@kc.rr.comwrote in message news:Or**************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>As alluded to in my post yesterday, I'm trying to compile a common C utility in Windows. It's only reference is to zlib.h, which needs zconf.h and in turn libz.a
On Unix I've compiled this with success by running: gcc -lz -o foo.exe foo.c (where -lz is a link to 'z' or libz.a)
I've placed zlib.h and zconf.h in the VC include folder, and libz.a and libz.so in the lib folder.
When I run: cl foo.c from the VS2005 command line tool, I get the following errors (which are the same errors I would receive on Unix without linking to the libz.a library by the -lz commnd line argument). I was under the impression that cl called the linker automatically, so what am I doing wrong here?
It is calling the linker automatically. These errors are in fact being generated by the linker, complaining it doesn't know how to resolve them. You need a libz.lib and libz.dll somewhere. If the libz.lib is not in the standard LIB path, you need to explicitly reference it from the command line.
Brian
Yeh, I went the easier route, which was to install the Mingw compiler (win32
equivalent of gcc) and everything is well.
Evan
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"wxforecaster" <eb*********@interwarn.comwrote in message
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>Brian,
I have tried everything in these regards with placing files in the lib/include directories. This entire C compilation should have taken about a minute, but I've wasted hours on it to no avail. I've been to zlib.net and tried to make heads or tails of this stuff, but I'm honestly at a loss for straight forward instructions.
Just like gcc needs -lz to tell it to look for libz.a, cl needs to have
"zlib.lib" or some such on the command line to instruct it to link with
that library.
>> Evan
"Brian Muth" <bm***@mvps.orgwrote in message news:Ok**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> "wxforecaster" <wx**********@kc.rr.comwrote in message news:Or**************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... As alluded to in my post yesterday, I'm trying to compile a common C utility in Windows. It's only reference is to zlib.h, which needs zconf.h and in turn libz.a
On Unix I've compiled this with success by running: gcc -lz -o foo.exe foo.c (where -lz is a link to 'z' or libz.a)
I've placed zlib.h and zconf.h in the VC include folder, and libz.a and libz.so in the lib folder.
When I run: cl foo.c from the VS2005 command line tool, I get the following errors (which are the same errors I would receive on Unix without linking to the libz.a library by the -lz commnd line argument). I was under the impression that cl called the linker automatically, so what am I doing wrong here?
It is calling the linker automatically. These errors are in fact being generated by the linker, complaining it doesn't know how to resolve them. You need a libz.lib and libz.dll somewhere. If the libz.lib is not in the standard LIB path, you need to explicitly reference it from the command line.
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