Re: Regarding location of Libvirt library
On 3/31/21 7:38 AM, shafnamol N wrote:
Hi,
I have installed Libvirt 7.1.0.
I configured and built libvirt based on instructions from
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html <https://libvirt.org/compiling.html>;.
Now I developed a client program to create a VM using an XML file.As the
API for it is *virDomainCreateXML,* called this API by passing XML file
.It shows the following error.
undefined reference to `virDomainCreateXML'.
I included the header files containing the said API declaration.But need
to include the library also.
My question is where do the libvirt library located after building it.
Yes, you need to pass -lvirt when linking. The library is installed
wherever you told it to install. If you ran plain meson with no extra
arguments, then 'meson install' installs library under /usr/local/lib/
or /usr/local/lib64/. So you will need to pass -L/usr/local/lib or
-L/usr/local/lib64 too to the linker.
But there is this switch -Dsystem=true which tells meson to install into
system directories:
meson -Dsystem=true build
meson install -C build
with this you will not need to pass any extra -L arguments to the linker.
Michal