[Xapian-discuss] Compiling examples

[Jim]

Justine Demeyer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I used Xapian with Python but now I want to try it with C++. So, I tried to
> compile the examples :
>
> g++ simpleindex.cc -o simpleindex
>
> But I have some errors :
>
> /tmp/ccl7xhUF.o: In function `main':
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x12c): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::WritableDatabase::WritableDatabase(std::basic_string<char,
> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, int)'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x16e): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::TermGenerator::TermGenerator()'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x1c9): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::Stem::Stem(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
> std::allocator<char> > const&)'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x212): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::TermGenerator::set_stemmer(Xapian::Stem const&)'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x2be): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::Document::Document()'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x2d0): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::Document::set_data(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
> std::allocator<char> > const&)'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x2e2): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::TermGenerator::set_document(Xapian::Document const&)'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x371): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::WritableDatabase::add_document(Xapian::Document const&)'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x3b0): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::Document::~Document()'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x3c9): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::Document::~Document()'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x47d): undefined reference to `Xapian::Stem::~Stem()'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x496): undefined reference to `Xapian::Stem::~Stem()'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x4a9): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::TermGenerator::~TermGenerator()'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x4c2): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::TermGenerator::~TermGenerator()'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x4d5): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::WritableDatabase::~WritableDatabase()'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x4ee): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::WritableDatabase::~WritableDatabase()'
> simpleindex.cc:(.text+0x53a): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::Error::get_description() const'
> /tmp/ccl7xhUF.o: In function
> `Xapian::TermGenerator::index_text(std::basic_string<char,
> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, unsigned int,
> std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >
> const&)':
> simpleindex.cc:(.text._ZN6Xapian13TermGenerator10index_textERKSsjS2_[Xapian::TermGenerator::index_text(std::basic_string<char,
> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, unsigned int,
> std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >
> const&)]+0x34): undefined reference to
> `Xapian::TermGenerator::index_text(Xapian::Utf8Iterator const&, unsigned
> int, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >
> const&)'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>
> Does somebody know about this error??
> Thank you!
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>   
This worked for me:
g++ -o simpleindex -L/usr/local/lib -l xapian simpleindex.cc

You may have to adjust the -L parameter to point to your xapian libraries.

Jim.