C error: undefined reference to function, but it IS defined

How are you doing the compiling and linking? You’ll need to specify both files, something like: gcc testpoint.c point.c …so that it knows to link the functions from both together. With the code as it’s written right now, however, you’ll then run into the opposite problem: multiple definitions of main. You’ll need/want to eliminate one … Read more

What is an undefined reference/unresolved external symbol error and how do I fix it in Fortran?

A link-time error like these messages can be for many of the same reasons as for more general uses of the linker, rather than just having compiled a Fortran program. Some of these are covered in the linked question about C++ linking and in another answer here: failing to specify the library, or providing them … Read more

libpthread.so.0: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line

You should mention the library on the command line after the object files being compiled: gcc -Wstrict-prototypes -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wformat-security -Wswitch-enum -Wunused-parameter -Wstrict-aliasing -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-field-initializers -Wno-override-init \ -g -O2 -export-dynamic -o utilities/ovs-dpctl utilities/ovs-dpctl.o \ lib/libopenvswitch.a \ /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_eal.a /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/libethdev.a /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_cmdline.a /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_hash.a /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_lpm.a /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_mbuf.a /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_ring.a /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_mempool.a /home/jyyoo/src/dpdk/build/lib/librte_malloc.a \ -lrt -lm -lpthread … Read more

What is an undefined reference/unresolved external symbol error and how do I fix it?

Compiling a C++ program takes place in several steps, as specified by 2.2 (credits to Keith Thompson for the reference): The precedence among the syntax rules of translation is specified by the following phases [see footnote]. Physical source file characters are mapped, in an implementation-defined manner, to the basic source character set (introducing new-line characters … Read more