Re: Linking issue on MacOS Catalina (using XCode)

I'm new to using clang, so to clarify: in my case, I should try "clang++ 
-g2 -O3 -I /usr/local/include cryptopp -Wl,-L" (where cryptopp is a 
subdirectory of include)? Also, is "-Wl,/usr/local/lib -o test.exe" 
intended to be shorthand for "clang++ -g2 -O3 -Wl,/usr/local/lib -o 
test.exe"? (and, relatedly, what output should I expect in test.exe?)



On Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 4:58:05 PM UTC-7 Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 6:39 PM Samyukta Yagati <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I installed Crypto++ from source as follows:
> >
> > git clone https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp.git
> > cd cryptopp
> > Uncommented the CXX flag line in GNUmakefile that adds "-stdlib=libc++" 
> because I am using XCode.
> > make -j 8 (8 = value of $(nproc) on my machine if it were linux)
> > sudo make install
> >
> > The make and install complete without errors. I confirmed that 
> /usr/local/lib contains libcryptopp.a.
> >
> > When I try to use libcryptopp in a project (in a different directory 
> from the cryptopp install), clang (Apple Clang 12.0.0) can't find it. I get 
> the following error message:
> >
> > + LD lib/crypto_bench
> > ld: library not found for -l:libcryptopp.a
> > clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see 
> invocation)
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I also tried updating my PATH variable in bash_profile with the location 
> of libcryptopp as follows, then source'd bash_profile again:
> >
> > export PATH="/usr/local/lib:$PATH"
> >
> > However, this resulted in the same error as before when I tried to 
> compile the project. I've spent several hours googling and haven't been 
> able to find a fix, and I'm wary of manually symlinking the file because it 
> can break other installs on my laptop. Any help with fixing this issue 
> would be much appreciated.
>
> When linking, use -L to provide a path to the linker. That is, you
> invoke ld directly. If you are passing the linker option through the
> compiler driver, then use -Wl,-L -Wl,<path>
>
> So you would probably use something like:
>
> clang++ -g2 -O3 -I /usr/local/include test.cxx -Wl,-L
> -Wl,/usr/local/lib -o test.exe
>
> You would have to do the same on, say, CentOS, Fedora and Red Hat. Red
> Hat does not put /usr/local on-path for the build tools.
>
> Jeff
>

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