Libnet in FreeBSD

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Mon Feb 4 19:42:00 UTC 2008


On Monday 04 February 2008 19:36:17 Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote:

> well actually, even the sample applications seem to have the same problem,
> So I'm guessing its some installation issue:
>
> # cc dns.c
> /var/tmp//ccImyVt1.o(.text+0x88) : In function 'main' : : undefined
> reference to 'libnet_init'
>
> This is how my compilation result reads for the dns.c sample application.
> Says the same for all libnet calls.

Linking 101. If you used the port (/usr/ports/net/libnet) then:

cc -L/usr/local/lib/libnet11 -lnet dns.c

or:
cat <<EOF >BSDmakefile
PROG=dns
LDADD=-lnet
LDFLAGS+=-L/usr/local/lib/libnet11

.include <bsd.prog.mk>
EOF

then type make :)
-- 
Mel


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