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Re: Simple c program won't compile



On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:26:30AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Hi,

> does not compile.  Instead I get the errors:
> 
> $ gcc thick.c
> /tmp/ccU9fgSr.o: In function `main':
> /tmp/ccU9fgSr.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `sqrt'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> 
> What is wrong?

you need to compile it like so:

gcc thick.c -lm

the -lm tells the linker to link in the math library.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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