When I compile a client program,
I encountered error and I fixed that problem after I was told about
-lsocket option.

> CC cl.cpp

Undefined                       first referenced
symbol                             in file
gethostbyname                       cl.o
socket                              cl.o
connect                             cl.o

However, I still encounter an error like this:

> CC cl.cpp -lsocket
Undefined                       first referenced
symbol                             in file
gethostbyname                       cl.o  (symbol belongs to implicit
dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)


function socket() and connect() are fine,
but gethostbyname() is still not linked.

How can I fix the problem?

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"ICN_OK" <cobra1030@hanmail.net> wrote in message
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> When I compile a client program,
> I encountered error and I fixed that problem after I was told about
> -lsocket option.
> 
>
> Undefined                       first referenced
> symbol                             in file
> gethostbyname                       cl.o
> socket                              cl.o
> connect                             cl.o
>
> However, I still encounter an error like this:
> 
> Undefined                       first referenced
> symbol                             in file
> gethostbyname                       cl.o  (symbol belongs to implicit
> dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)
>
>
> function socket() and connect() are fine,
> but gethostbyname() is still not linked.
>
> How can I fix the problem?

How about '-lnsl' as the error message explains.

DS

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"ICN_OK" <cobra1030@hanmail.net> writes:

> When I compile a client program,
> I encountered error and I fixed that problem after I was told about
> -lsocket option.
> 
>
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> gethostbyname                       cl.o
> socket                              cl.o
> connect                             cl.o
>
> However, I still encounter an error like this:
> 
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> gethostbyname                       cl.o  (symbol belongs to implicit
> dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)
>
>
> function socket() and connect() are fine,
> but gethostbyname() is still not linked.
>
> How can I fix the problem?

-lsocket -lnsl , I suppose.

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>>CC cl.cpp -lsocket
>
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> gethostbyname                       cl.o  (symbol belongs to implicit
> dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)
>
>
> function socket() and connect() are fine,
> but gethostbyname() is still not linked.

If you look in the man pages of the socket() call(On Solaris,section3C
),it gives the following usage details :
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lsocket -lnsl [ library ... ]

Also I suppose since its a Solaris box,the socket() and related
functions are available as libraries (libsocket and libnsl)and not as
system calls,though they may internally be calling the system calls
specific to the platform.
On systems like Linux,socket() and related functions are system calls in
the kernel and hence doesn't need the libraries to be specified(the
entries/stubs are present in the libc library for the system calls).

HTH

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grid <prohit99@gmail.com> wrote:
# >>CC cl.cpp -lsocket
# >
# > Undefined                       first referenced
# >  symbol                             in file
# > gethostbyname                       cl.o  (symbol belongs to implicit
# > dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1)
# >
# >
# > function socket() and connect() are fine,
# > but gethostbyname() is still not linked.
#
# If you look in the man pages of the socket() call(On Solaris,section3C
# ),it gives the following usage details :
# cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lsocket -lnsl [ library ... ]
#
# Also I suppose since its a Solaris box,the socket() and related
# functions are available as libraries (libsocket and libnsl)and not as
# system calls,though they may internally be calling the system calls
# specific to the platform.
# On systems like Linux,socket() and related functions are system calls in
# the kernel and hence doesn't need the libraries to be specified(the
# entries/stubs are present in the libc library for the system calls).

gethostbyname potentially does a DNS lookup. It can do its own
TCP or UDP socket code internally before returning. That's far
too much work to put into the kernel. On the unices I've used,
its in the libc equivalent; libc can include many things beyond
kernel calls.

Kernel calls like socket() or read() still often require a
small bit of user space code to convert the C (or Fortran or ...)
calling conventions to the particular register/stack/interrupt
code/etc used to transfer calls across the kernel-user interface.
These little bits of code are loaded from the library.

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