Re: URGENT: Undefined Symbols Using XCode 2.5 on Mac OS X 10.5

[Keary Suska <hierophant(at)pcisys(dot)net>]

on 12/24/07 4:16 PM, neilt(at)neiltiffin(dot)com purportedly said:

> To find out if the symbol is in the library use the following command "nm -A
> libpq.a | grep close".  Of course you will need to the in the same dir as
> libpq or use an absolute reference.  I get the following:
> 
> Macintosh:lib$ nm -A libpq.a | grep close
> libpq.a:fe-auth.o:          U _krb5_cc_close
> libpq.a:fe-connect.o:          U _close
> libpq.a:fe-connect.o: 000004dc t _closePGconn
> libpq.a:fe-connect.o:          U _fclose
> libpq.a:fe-connect.o:          U _pqsecure_close
> libpq.a:fe-misc.o:          U _close
> libpq.a:fe-misc.o:          U _pqsecure_close
> libpq.a:fe-print.o:          U _pclose
> libpq.a:fe-lobj.o:          U _close
> libpq.a:fe-lobj.o: 000009fa T _lo_close
> libpq.a:fe-protocol3.o:          U _close
> libpq.a:fe-protocol3.o:          U _pqsecure_close
> libpq.a:fe-secure.o: 000000a1 t _close_SSL
> libpq.a:fe-secure.o:          U _fclose
> libpq.a:fe-secure.o: 000000f6 T _pqsecure_close
> 
> Now here you will see there is no "_close" related to "fe-secure.o".  Should
> you be using "_close_SSL" or "_fclose"?  For my projects using xCode I link
> against libpq.dylib.  Not sure if this makes any difference.

I figured out to use -isysroot and the CC variable to force compiling
against the Mac OS X 104u. The compile doesn't complete successfully, but it
does (apparently) build a fully functional libpq that I can use sans any
linker errors. This will work for now.

Thanks for your help,

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Demystifying technology for your home or business"