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Re: 1.3.3: ld: cannot find a library that is there!


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...



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