Re: [libxml++] linkage error while using libxml++ in MinGW

[Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk spth de>]

tikcireviva wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I can build the libxml++ with MinGW successfully, however when I try to 
> compile a simple program,
> 
> g++ -o test.exe -O2 test.cpp -Lc:/mingw-5.0.2/include
> 
> #include <libxml++/libxml++.h>
> int main()
> {
>         xmlpp::DomParser parser;
>         return 0;
> }
> 
> it prompts the error like this,
> 
> $ g++ -o test.exe -O2 test.cpp -Lc:/mingw-5.0.2/include
> C:/DOCUME~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/1/ccuwcaaa.o(.text+0x21):test.cpp: undefined 
> reference to `_imp___ZN5xmlpp9DomParserC1Ev'
> C:/DOCUME~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/1/ccuwcaaa.o(.text+0x29):test.cpp: undefined 
> reference to `xmlpp::DomParser::~DomParser()'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> So weird, do you guys know why is that? Am I doingthe libxml++ 
> compilation in a wrong way?

It looks as if you forgot to specify that libxml++ should be used by the
linker.
~> g++ -o test.exe -O2 -lxmlpp test.cpp -Lc:/mingw-5.0.2/include
(assuming that you copied the libxml++ binaries you created into you
library folder or they're in your library search path for some other
reason).

Philipp