On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 09:52 -0500, Tim Way wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use LibTIFF to work with mulit-page TIFF files. I cannot
> seem to get off the starting blocks. I found that libtiff has a .vapi file
> built into vala but when I try to use it with this tidbit of code
>
> using Tiff;
>
> ...
>
> TIFF testobj = new TIFF("/home/xuser/Pictures/Test.tif", "r");
>
> ...
>
> I get the following errors running my valac command:
>
> me@host$ valac --pkg gtk+-3.0 --pkg tiff test.vala
>
> test.vala:18.12-18.75: warning: local variable `testobj' declared but never
> used
> TIFF testobj = new TIFF("/home/xuser/Pictures/Test.tif", "r");
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> /tmp/cceW1BJ0.o: In function `_vala_main':
> test.vala.c:(.text+0x207): undefined reference to `TIFFOpen'
> test.vala.c:(.text+0x252): undefined reference to `TIFFClose'
> test.vala.c:(.text+0x4af): undefined reference to `TIFFClose'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: cc exited with status 256
> Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 1 warning(s)
>
> Is this a problem with the bindings or am I just using this incorrectly?
Vala can only automatically link libraries which provide a pkg-config
file, which (AFAIK) libtiff does not. You'll need to manually make sure
libtiff gets linked... something like this should do the trick:
valac --pkg gtk+-3.0 --pkg tiff -X -ltiff test.vala
-Evan
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