Re: [Help-glpk] Compile error

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Federico Zenith wrote:

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> I am trying to use the glpk libraries to implement an Octave (www.octave.org)
> LP function. I tried to install glpk, but I ran in an unusual compile error.
> It seems that gcc does not find the math.h header file, which is indeed
> in /usr/include/. However, the configuring reports that the ANSI C header
> files are found. Moreover, if I use a very simple test program (prova.c,
> attached), and I try to compile with gcc, I get an error of the same sort; if
> I compile with g++, however, everything works...
>
> Does anyone know what's happening?
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It's not a compile error.
It's a linker error.
The gcc C compiler is finding math.h just fine.
The gcc link step does not include the math library by default.

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