Re: [INTERFACES] Re: Postgres and port unavailable?

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, matthew e perkowski cis stnt wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I can create a database and gave worked with my template1 database. Now, I
> want to test the LIBPQ interface with testclib.c. I can compile and run
> c/c++ programs, start the postmaster, and use psql successfully. Question:
> when I want to compile the testclib.c program( I made sure my header files
> in the program were in the correct place and were referred to correctly)
> with my command line:
>
> gcc testclib.c -I/usr/include/pgsql -L/usr/include/pgsql/lib -o project

Youre missing -lpq. the -L only defines where the libraries are located,
but doesn't tell the linker which ones to use.

gcc testclib.c -I/usr/include/pgsql -L/usr/include/pgsql/lib -lpq -o project

That should work

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