On Tue, Aug 16, 2011, D Robson wrote: > Hi all, > I have managed compiling bitcoind with gmake, but it is failing at the > linking stage. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. > # gmake -f Makefile2 bitcoind > g++ -O2 -fstack-protector -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat -g -D__WXDEBUG__ > -D__WXGTK__ -DNOPCH -DUSE_SSL -D__BSD__ > -I"/home/root2/bitcoind/deps/include" > -I"/usr/local/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-release-2.9" > -I"/usr/local/include/db47" -I"/usr/local/include" -L"/usr/local/lib/db47" > -L"/home/root2/bitcoind/deps/lib" -L"/usr/lib" -o bitcoind > obj/nogui/util.o obj/nogui/script.o obj/nogui/db.o obj/nogui/net.o > obj/nogui/irc.o obj/nogui/main.o obj/nogui/rpc.o obj/nogui/init.o > cryptopp/obj/sha.o cryptopp/obj/cpu.o obj/sha256.o -dead-strip -l > boost_system-mt -l boost_filesystem-mt -l boost_program_options-mt -l > boost_thread-mt -l db_cxx -l ssl -l crypto -Wl,-Bdynamic -l z -l pthread > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_system-mt > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > gmake: *** [bitcoind] Error 1 > # > > > See this thread for more details: > > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=35246.0 > > Even if you don't know exactly whats going wrong, could you tell me how to > get more info from ld?
You don't really need any more info. It's trying to link with a library and didn't find it. It looks like you're missing -L/usr/local/lib, but that will only work if you have the boost libraries installed there.
