[haiku-development] Re: gcc, ld and sockets under Haiku

  • From: Paulo Estrela <paulojbe@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:53:10 -0200

Now works fine. Thanks!

Paulo Estrela
http://tabugado.com


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:06 AM, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Paulo Estrela <paulojbe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> This weekend I was doing nothing and took the opportunity to install
>> Haiku with GCC4 (not the Hybrid one) on my laptop. The little guy is a
>> few years old, a Dell Latitude 110L (CeleronM 1.3GHz, 1.2GB of RAM,
>> intel 915 chipset, intel e100 nic and broadcom 57xx wlan card). Except
>> for wlan card, everything works perfectly. Congratulations, Haiku
>> developers!
>>
>> After system installation I setup wired network and could realize that
>> apparently Haiku misses nslookup, dig, host or any other tool that I
>> know to test DNS functionality. I thought, "lets try to build BIND and
>> see whats happen". configure script runs fine specifying
>> --build=i586-pc-beos, but make prints lots of "undefined reference"
>> messages about sockets API functions (socket, connect, listen and
>> etc.).
>>
>> To test this behavior, I decided to build a basic sockets code. I went
>> to Wikipedia and found  "Client code in C"
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets#Client). I tried:  gcc
>> tcpclient.c -o tcpclient
>>
>> It gives me:
>>
>> ~/Desktop> gcc tcpclient.c -o tcpclient
>> /tmp//ccYWJ81I.o: In function `main':
>> tcpclient.c:(.text+0x28): undefined reference to `socket'
>> tcpclient.c:(.text+0x93): undefined reference to `__inet_pton'
>> tcpclient.c:(.text+0x10a): undefined reference to `connect'
>> tcpclient.c:(.text+0x149): undefined reference to `shutdown'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> The funny part is that all this exists inside
>> /boot/develop/headers/posix/... . Anyone has an idea of how to compile
>> this? What am I doing wrong? I tried to add -lsocket parameter, but
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> Sorry about my english and message size!
>>
>>
>> Paulo Estrela
>> http://tabugado.com
>>
>>
>
> unlike BeOS which used -lnet IIRC, Haiku uses -lnetwork when linking
> to network related libraries functions.
> so change -lsocket to -lnetwork and it should work better for you.
>
> There are some issues with sockets, as the python regression tests point out:
> http://ports.haiku-files.org/wiki/PythonRegressionTests
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4159
> -scottmc
>
>

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