Can't successfully link library

[trino]

Hi all,

I'm runnign codeblocks 12.11 on Ubuntu 13.10 using gcc 4.8.1

I was having some problems using one static library where I would get undefined reference errors to functions of this library. After some time I decided to create a small example with a simple library to see if the error was in linking the library.

So I created a project helloLib for a static library and defined only the following function on it:

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#include <stdio.h>

void printHello(){
    printf("Hello!");
}


And also created a header called functions.h with the following prototype:

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void printHello();


Then I created another project as console application and made the following configurations in order to link helloLib to it:

Project build options >> Link Settings >> Link libraries >> added helloLib
Project build options >> Search directories >> Compiler >> added the path to the folder containing functions.h
Project build options >> Search directories >> Linker >> added the path to the folder containing libhelloLib.a

Then I edited the main.cpp file of this project like this:

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#include <iostream>

#include <functions.h>

using namespace std;

int main(){
    printHello();

    cout << "Hello world!" << endl;
    return 0;
}


Now when I try to compile this I get the same kind of error:

Build Log:

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g++ -L/home/user/helloLib  -o bin/Debug/libraryTest obj/Debug/main.o    -lhelloLib
obj/Debug/main.o: In function `main':
/home/user/libraryTest/main.cpp:8: undefined reference to `printHello()'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)
1 errors, 0 warnings (0 minutes, 0 seconds)


Can someone help me with that?

Thanks.

[scarphin]

Are you sure that's not related to mixing C and C++, like definition of 'extern "C"' missing somewhere?

[trino]

aaaaah, It was missing one in the header of the library

Thank you.