Re: Problems linking c++/SWI executable for Windows

On 10/23/2013 03:49 AM, Kaitain Jones wrote:
> Got my SWI-powered app compiling and running on Linux and OSX. Not yet
> succeeded on Windows.
>
> I installed all the MinGW/gcc toolchain stuff today, and everything appears
> to be compiling as on the other two platforms, but it seems to be falling
> at the final linking hurdle. swipl-ld builds the two object files I was
> expecting without any apparent problems. But then it calls the final link
> phase to build the exe:
>
> *g++ -o s2.exe  s_int.obj s_helpers.obj -L"c:/program files/swipl/lib"
> -lswipl*
>
> At this point, it spits out a slew of linker errors:
>
> *s_helpers.obj:s_helpers.cpp:(.text+0x50c): undefined reference to
> `PL_new_term_ref'
> *
> *s_helpers.obj:s_helpers.cpp:(.text+0x52f): undefined reference to
> `PL_put_nil'*
> etc.
>
> In short, even though it finds either *libswipl.dll.a *or (?) *libswipl.lib*in
> *c:/program files/swipl/lib* (and complains if I move or rename them), it
> appears not to know what any of the Prolog-specific elements are at link
> time.
>
> Anyone know what's likely to be going on?
>
> This is a 64-bit Win7 environment, btw. (And I'm attempting the compile
> from inside a MinGW32 window.)
I am of no help, but I face exactly the same issue on Windows 8 with
MingW too.

Olivier
>
> Running the swipl repl works fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> KJ
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