Re: linking time type mismatching error

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:21:26 -0500
Message-ID:
<fhl1kn$nob$1@news.datemas.de>
lionqiang@gmail.com wrote:

I am trying to compile a package protclust-1.0.1 which is written by
someone by in 2003.
The run of ./configure is ok without error. But when I try to compile
it, 'make' stops with following error message.

It seems there is a type mismatch between the type used in the program
and the basic c++ string type ...
Or I am missing some point ??


You are. It has nothing to do with the string type. It is all about
where the functions are declared when they are used in your program.

All the programs have passed the syntax check using 'gcc -fsyntax-only
-Wall'.
Note: to compile this package you also need another package called
xmlio-1.0.0 .

many thanks,

The following the error message I got after call 'make'.
---------------------------------------------------------
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link c++ -I/users/sista/qfu/local/include -
O2 -o CreateMatrix CreateMatrix.o ../Matrix/libMatrix.a ../
Clustering/libClustering.a ../Global/libGlobal.
a -L/users/sista/qfu/local/lib -lxmlio -lexpat
c++ -I/users/sista/qfu/local/include -O2 -o CreateMatrix
CreateMatrix.o ../Matrix/libMatrix.a ../Clustering/libClustering.a
../ Global/libGlobal.a -L/users/sista/qfu/local/lib /u
sers/sista/qfu/local/lib/libxmlio.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so -Wl,--rpath
- Wl,/users/sista/qfu/local/lib -Wl,--rpath
-Wl,/users/sista/qfu/local/ lib
CreateMatrix.o: In function `main':
CreateMatrix.cpp:(.text+0x298): undefined reference to
`std::getScalingMethod(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,

   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

std::allocator<char> >)'
CreateMatrix.cpp:(.text+0x2cd): undefined reference to
`std::getAlignmentTool(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,

   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

std::allocator<char> >)'
../Matrix/libMatrix.a(Matrix.o): In function `std::Matrix::save()':

                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[..]


This is very suspect. Why does the linker think it needs all those
functions from the 'std' namespace. For whatever reason you put
the declarations of those function in 'std' namespace when you had
no business to do so. Make sure you fix the declarations.

V
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