Hello friends, I am running into some linker problems while trying to build gettext. After configuring with no arguments and running make, after quite some time, I get this error:
libtool: link: g++ -shared -nostdlib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/crtbeginS.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-message.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-error.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-xerror.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-catalog-abstract.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-lex.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-gram-gen.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-charset.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-po.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-properties.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-stringtable.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-open-catalog.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-dir-list.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-str-list.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-catalog.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-color.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-write-catalog.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-write-properties.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-write-stringtable.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-write-po.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-ascii.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-iconv.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-equal.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-cat.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-header.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-english.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-check.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-file-list.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-charset.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-time.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-plural-exp.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-plural-eval.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-plural-table.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-sentence.o ../woe32dll/.libs/libgettextsrc_la-c++format.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-c.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-sh.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-python.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-python-brace.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-lisp.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-elisp.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-librep.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-scheme.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-java.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-csharp.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-awk.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-pascal.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-ycp.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-tcl.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-perl.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-perl-brace.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-php.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-gcc-internal.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-gfc-internal.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-qt.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-qt-plural.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-kde.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-kde-kuit.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-boost.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-lua.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-javascript.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-desktop.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-locating-rule.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-its.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-search-path.o ../woe32dll/.libs/libgettextsrc_la-gettextsrc-exports.o -L/home/miles/build-son/gettext-tools/intl/.libs ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.dll.a /home/miles/build-son/gettext-tools/intl/.libs/libintl.dll.a ../intl/.libs/libintl.dll.a -liconv -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/../../.. -lstdc++ -lgcc_s -lgcc -lcygwin -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -luser32 -lkernel32 -lgcc_s -lgcc /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/crtend.o -g -O2 -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--disable-auto-import -fopenmp -o .libs/cyggettextsrc-0-19-8-1.dll -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -Xlinker --out-implib -Xlinker .libs/libgettextsrc.dll.a /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: .libs/libgettextsrc_la-locating-rule.o:locating-rule.c:(.rdata$.refptr.xmlFree[.refptr.xmlFree]+0x0): undefined reference to `xmlFree' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status I installed libxml2 via cygwin setup and tried to compile a small C program that calls xmlFree() it compiles and links fine using this: $ gcc -I/usr/include/libxml2 test.c -o test -lxml2 I also tried to configure with: $ ./configure LIBS="-lxml2" This didnt work as well. Any suggestions will be much much appreciated -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple