glibc < 2.17 requires -lrt for clock_gettime(), older versions do not. I've added "-lrt" in Git commit ed6509bf6ca46e39e3514680bfb81216e2a825bf but without testing (as I don't have an ancient glibc on this system and I am on a train...). Please let me know if it does not work...
Happy hacking!
Christian
On 03/20/2017 09:55 AM, Alex Reynolds wrote:
> I am compiling a static binary ("my_project") that links in a static
> compilation of the libmicrohttpd.a library, along with a couple other
> libraries.
>
> On some platforms, this appears to work.
>
> On others, like a default image of Linux that is used in Travis CI
> (Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS, gcc 4.6.3), I get the following compilation error
> related to libmicrohttpd:
>
> <project>/third-party/libmicrohttpd/lib/libmicrohttpd.a(libmicrohttpd_la-mhd_mono_clock.o):
> In function `MHD_monotonic_sec_counter_init':
> <project>/third-party/libmicrohttpd/src/microhttpd/mhd_mono_clock.c:160:
> undefined reference to `clock_gettime'
> <project>/third-party/libmicrohttpd/src/microhttpd/mhd_mono_clock.c:180:
> undefined reference to `clock_gettime'
> <project>/third-party/libmicrohttpd/src/microhttpd/mhd_mono_clock.c:191:
> undefined reference to `clock_gettime'
> <project>/third-party/libmicrohttpd/src/microhttpd/mhd_mono_clock.c:202:
> undefined reference to `clock_gettime'
> <project>/third-party/libmicrohttpd/lib/libmicrohttpd.a(libmicrohttpd_la-mhd_mono_clock.o):
> In function `MHD_monotonic_sec_counter':
> <project>/third-party/libmicrohttpd/src/microhttpd/mhd_mono_clock.c:315:
> undefined reference to `clock_gettime'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [my_project] Error 1
>
> From reading Stack Overflow, this appears to be related to linking the
> Real Time library (`-lrt`).
>
> I have tried compiling my static binary with the addition of
> `-Wl,--no-as-needed -lrt` to my LIBS variable, which is positioned in
> the build statement after the objects are compiled, e.g.:
>
> ...
> gcc -g -Wall -Wextra -std=c99 -D__USE_POSIX -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS
> -D__STDINT_MACROS -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1 -O3
> -pthread -static -static-libgcc -I/usr/include
> -I<project>/third-party/bzip2
> -I<project>/third-party/libmicrohttpd/include
> -L"<project>/third-party/bzip2"
> -L"<project>/third-party/libmicrohttpd/lib" my_project.o -o my_project
> mt19937.a -Wl,--no-as-needed -lrt -lm -lbz2 -lmicrohttpd
> ...
>
> However, this patch did not work. I still get the same fatal build errors.
>
> As the example build statement shows, I can incorporate other static
> libraries into my project's binary -- just not libmicrohttpd. I'm not
> sure what else to try and was wondering if others might have ideas.
>
> In Travis CI, I would also get similar errors about undefined references
> to Pthreads calls, which I fixed by adding `-pthread` to my build flags,
> as well as undefined references to functions in libgcrypt and GnuTLS
> libraries, which I fixed by adding `--without-libgcrypt
> --without-gnutls` to the libmicrohttpd ./configure options.
>
> Is there a similar modification I can make to my build or linking
> process to resolve the clock_gettime() call errors, so that I can
> incorporate the static libmicrohttpd.a library?
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
>
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