Re: problem with linking

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jakub Lukomski <qba best net pl> writes:

> hi. at some point i decided to try programming in GTK+, however i've
> got a problem when trying to link my program.
> i get an error:
>
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
> undefined reference to `FT_Get_Next_Char'
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
> undefined reference to `FT_Get_First_Char'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> i use the include libraries returned by the pkg-config program. when i
> enter "gtk+" as a package it links, however even the "Hello World"
> program from GTK documentation raises some undefined symbol errors,
> however if i use "gtk+-2.0" it compiles good, however there is the
> linking error.
>
> what might be the problem?
>
> i've got Red Hat Linux 7.2, i installed the pango libs from RPM.

The Pango RPMS on ftp.gtk.org are built against FreeType-2.0.9;
you need to get the FreeType RPMS in the same place. 

(Looks like I forgot to add an explicit dependency into the RPM
to enforce having the FreeType RPMS installed.)

Regards,
                                        Owen

[
Another possibility is that you have a second, older installation of
FreeType on your system not installed from RPM, and the linker is
finding that instead of FreeType-2.0.9; I'd guess that you just
need to install the FreeType RPMS though.
]