I am attempting to link an application with g++ on this Debian lenny system. ld is complaining it cannot find specified libraries. The specific example here is ImageMagick, but I am having similar problems with a few other libraries too.
I am calling the linker with:
g++ -w (..lots of .o files/include directories/etc..) -L/usr/lib -lmagic
ld complains:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmagic
However, libmagic exists:
$ locate libmagic.so /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1 /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1.0.0 $ ls -all /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2008-12-01 03:52 /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1 -> libmagic.so.1.0.0 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 84664 2008-09-09 00:05 /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1.0.0 $ ldd /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1.0.0 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f85000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7f51000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7df6000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f86000) $ sudo ldconfig -v | grep "libmagic" libmagic.so.1 -> libmagic.so.1.0.0
How do I diagnose this problem further, and what could be wrong? Am I doing something completely stupid?
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Answer
The problem is the linker is looking for libmagic.so
but you only have libmagic.so.1
A quick hack is to symlink libmagic.so.1
to libmagic.so