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.