Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20011101171821.016a2ed0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 17:20:57 -0500 To: "Ross Smith" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: 1.3.3: ld: cannot find a library that is there! In-Reply-To: References: <1004649393 DOT 24001 DOT ezmlm AT sources DOT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:52 PM 11/1/2001, Ross Smith wrote: >I'm compiling IBM's icu 2.0 (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/) from cvs as a precursor to porting xerces 1.5.2 to cygwin. > >I'm using cygwin 1.3.3 with all latest versions of everything. > >make stops at the first link, with: > >c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DICU_DATA_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib/icu/2.0/\" -DUDATA_SO_SUFFIX=\".so\" -DU_COMMON_LIBNAME=\"libicuuc.so.20.0\" > -DUDATA_FILES -g -O2 -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libicuuc.so.20 -o libicuuc.so.20.0 putil.o ... >convert.o -L../data -L../stubdata -licudata -lm >.../ld: cannot find -licudata > >I verified that ../stubdata/libicudata.so.lnk exists, and it links to ../stubdata/libicudt20l.so. > >So I tried to fix it with: > >% cd stubdata >% rm libicudata.so >% cp libicudt20l.so libicudata.so > >No luck. > >So I copied libicudata.so into the working directory, and added -L. to the command line. > >% cd common >% cp ../stubdata/libicudata.so . >% make > >c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DICU_DATA_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib/icu/2.0/\" -DUDATA_SO_SUFFIX=\".so\" -DU_COMMON_LIBNAME=\"libicuuc.so.20.0\" > -DUDATA_FILES -g -O2 -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libicuuc.so.20 -o libicuuc.so.20.0 putil.o ... >convert.o -L../data -L../stubdata -licudata -lm -L. >.../ld: cannot find -licudata > >So, ld can't find the library when it's sitting right in front of it. > >What am I missing? libicudata.a apparently. Is libicudata.so really a shared object? Where did it come from? Cygwin's gcc doesn't make these or use them... Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/