Subject: Re: ld: library not found for -lcares

Re: ld: library not found for -lcares

From: arjun sj <arj.sja_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:45:02 +0530

can you also check if you have added it to the CORRECT PROJET, which
consumes this library.
Also, when you give a build, make sure that the libcares.a gets built
before your other target files that consumes this library.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Kristin Roher <kristin.roher_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I did a google search and it seems as though you can add additional search
> paths in xcode under project settings>search paths>library search paths. (I
> am new to xcode). I added the path to libcares.a to this and it is still
> giving me the same error. Is there any chance that I need to get
> libcares.so since I currently do not have that anywhere?
>
> Just in case I made a mistake here, this is exactly the search path that I
> added:
> -L /Users/knr10/Desktop/Bonic_Src/boinc_core_release_6_12_36
> (tag)/mac_build/cares/build/Debug-iphonesimulator
>
> Thanks,
> Kristin
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:30 AM, arjun sj <arj.sja_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> have you tried to add this path into the "library path". I dont exactly
>> know in xcode, but atleast in Visual studio, you can configure easily.
>> So I would suggest,
>> - quickly see if you can add this path into the "library path", some
>> equivalent option in xcode and see if it works.
>> - if it works, you will have to replace it with a relative path...which
>> is the right way of doing it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arjun
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Kristin Roher <kristin.roher_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> libcares.a is located in:
>>>
>>> /Users/knr10/Desktop/Bonic_Src/boinc_core_release_6_12_36
>>> (tag)/mac_build/cares/build/Debug-iphonesimulator
>>>
>>> Sorry if this is a silly question but how do I add this to the linker as
>>> you said below? Is it some preference in xcode that I need to edit?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time,
>>> Kristin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Wilfried Goesgens <
>>> dothebart_at_citadel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kristin,
>>>>
>>>> you need to find libcares.so or libcares.a in /usr/lib/ or any other
>>>> path you specified like this:
>>>>
>>>> -L /usr/local/lib
>>>>
>>>> to the linker.
>>>>
>>>> Tue Jan 10 2012 07:01:32 EST from "Kristin Roher" <
>>>> kristin.roher_at_gmail.com> Subject: ld: library not found for -lcares
>>>> I am working on trying to build a project that uses c-ares. However,
>>>> I am currently getting this error:
>>>>
>>>> ld: library not found for -lcares
>>>>
>>>> Any insight as to what this means and/or how to fix it would be
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Kristin
>>>>
>>>> Wilfried Goesgens
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
Received on 2012-01-11