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From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: help ! undefined reference when compiling
Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:54:48 +0100
Organization:	Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik
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andrea tasso wrote:
> 
> HI !
> 
> When compiling the following program with djgpp for dos
> 
> #include<math.h>
> void main (void)
> {
> 
> double d , n ;
> d = 40.05 ;
> n = sin ( d ) ;
> 
> }
> 
> with the command: gcc -lm sin.c
> 
> I get the following error message:
> 
> sin.c(.text+0x20): undefined reference to 'sin'.
> 
> The same program compile successfully with gcc for Linux.
> You note that hello.c ( in \samples\hello of djgpp dist ) compile also with
> djgpp for dos, and gcc sees math.h, and the math library libm.a is present.
> thank you very much for your help.
Use gcc sin.c -lm
ld is a one-pass linker that remembers all unreferenced procedures 
and then resolves them. That is, it ploughs through libm.a, finds 
nothing important, then reads sin.o and realizes it needs _sin, but
will not find it.

Ciao
Tom

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