[vorbis-dev] compiling vorbis in cygwin

[Lourens Veen]

On Wed 18 February 2004 15:31, Wintersteller, Roland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On compiling vorbis in a cygwin shell using "./autogen.sh" I get
> the following error...
>
> configure:19396: checking for Ogg
> configure:19431: gcc -o conftest.exe -O20 -D__NO_MATH_INLINES
> -fsigned-char -DUSE_MEMORY_H     conftest.c -lm  -logg >&5
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/
>bin/ld: cannot find -logg
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> The Ogg library "libogg" is properly installed - I can see it in
> the /usr/local/lib directory. It seems to me that the config
> script tries to link an "ogg" library. I do not understand that.
> To make shure not to use a version out of date, I have downloaded
> the nightly cvs snapshot from yesterday and tried again - no
> changes.

You need to run ldconfig after installing libraries to let the 
linker recreate its index of what is where. It may be that 
/usr/local/lib is not in its search path, on Linux systems this is 
defined in /etc/ld.so.conf. I don't know about Cygwin, but it's 
probably in the equivalent location.

HTH,

Lourens

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