Linker warning: libz.so.1 not found

[CraigD]

With some help on the openSuse form. I seem to have found a solution to my problem, but it looks like it was my mis-use of QtCreator that was the problem.

I added the following lines to my .pro file, after which a call to qmake and gmake did the trick.

QT  += sql 
LIBS += -lz -ldl -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lpcre

QT  += sql 
LIBS += -lz -ldl -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lpcre

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I am surprised I had to explicitly add the -lz -ldl -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lpcre to my .pro file.

Can anyone explain why it is necessary to specifically link to these libraries which are already in the path.

Perhaps the fact that I didn't initially specify QT += sql caused this.

Anyway, hope this helps if anyone else stumbles across the same problem in the future.

Cheers,

Craig

[wysota]

I am surprised I had to explicitly add the -lz -ldl -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lpcre to my .pro file.

You shouldn't need to do that unless you are using static libraries.

Can anyone explain why it is necessary to specifically link to these libraries which are already in the path.

It's not necessary.

Perhaps the fact that I didn't initially specify QT += sql caused this.

That's very unlikely.

[pinguin74]

Hello Craig,

I ran exactly into the same problem like you and like you I use openSUSE 12.2. But I do not try to build Qt software, I tried to build the media center software XBMC. I get the same errors like you, the linker cannot find libraried, although they are installed on the system.

I get errors like this:

/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
warning: libm.so.6, needed by /usr/lib64/libpython2.7.so, not found (try
using -rpath or -rpath-link)

/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
warning: libm.so.6, needed by /usr/lib64/libpython2.7.so, not found (try
using -rpath or -rpath-link)

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Actually libm.so.6 is there. My guess was the linker in openSUSE is broken. But, the amazing thing is, other folks can build XBMC on openSUSE 12.2, so it leaves me totally clueless.

What would I have to do to adapt your solution to my problem? Actually it seems we have the very same problem, only difference you build Qt code and I try to build XBMC.

addendum
I have now removed all binutil packages that I do not need, e.g. for ARM, IA64 and so on, I only kept binutils for x86_64 and i386 and suddenly I can build the software now! Can this really be the root of the problem? Does having several binutils on the system make the system weird? All I can say it works now, all I did was to remove unneeded binutils.

Thanx
Malte