Symbol is not found

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi, ALL,
I just tried to add a new dynamic library (.so) to my project.
Everything compiles but during the runtime I'm getting an error as in the screenshot.

I tried to do nm, and here is the output:

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igor@IgorReinCloud /usr/local/lib64 $ nm libmisc.so |grep StyleBar
000000000000b44a T _ZN8StyleBarC1EP8wxWindowi
000000000000b44a T _ZN8StyleBarC2EP8wxWindowi
                 U _ZTV8StyleBar

I declared this in the code as:

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class WXEXPORT StyleBar: public wxToolBar 
{
public:
    StyleBar(wxWindow *parent, int painter);
    ~StyleBar();
protected:

private:
    wxTextCtrl *m_fieldText;
};

What am I missing?

In case it matters - I am building against GTK3 on Linux with gcc 5.4 (c++11).

Thank you.

[DavidHart]

Hi,

I just tried to add a new dynamic library (.so) to my project.

I presume that, by 'dynamic', you mean a non-static library, not one dynamically loaded by dlopen().

If so, then your problem is almost certainly caused by /usr/local/lib64 not being in your runtime library search path. You can prove that by trying:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64 /path/to/myprogram

Various longer-term solutions:
1) If this is a program for your personal use, add
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64
to your ~/.bashrc
2) If it is for several people, add that dir to the program's rpath: see e.g. https://dwheeler.com/program-library/Pr ... O/x36.html. Actually, see that link anyway.
3) If it is for distribution, don't use /usr/local/.

Regards,

David

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi, David,

Hi,

I just tried to add a new dynamic library (.so) to my project.

I presume that, by 'dynamic', you mean a non-static library, not one dynamically loaded by dlopen().

Correct.

If so, then your problem is almost certainly caused by /usr/local/lib64 not being in your runtime library search path. You can prove that by trying:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64 /path/to/myprogram

No, it is not. By many reasons.
1. If that was the cause, then the library wouldn't be found. Instead the library is found, but for some reason the linker can't find the symbol.
2. I did run "ldconfig" in that directory, which should update LD_LIBRARY_PATH directory.
3. I just tried to run this command and got exactly the same failure.

Various longer-term solutions:
1) If this is a program for your personal use, add
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64
to your ~/.bashrc
2) If it is for several people, add that dir to the program's rpath: see e.g. https://dwheeler.com/program-library/Pr ... O/x36.html. Actually, see that link anyway.
3) If it is for distribution, don't use /usr/local/.

Regards,

David

[DavidHart]

Fair enough. In that case this is outside my experience.

However googling for 'linux "undefined symbol" runtime' results in lots of hits e.g. this, and this (do you define a StyleBar in your program?). If those two don't help you, there are lots of others.