I can't seem to get the errors to go away. The errors are below. I have looked on Google Search and still I can't figure it out. It is not like I am new to C++, but I have not fooled around with it in a while.
The weird thing is it worked with g++ on Windows...
Errors using:
g++ main.cpp
Output:
/tmp/ccJL2ZHE.o: In function
main': \ main.cpp:(.text+0x11): undefined reference to
Help::Help()'
main.cpp:(.text+0x1d): undefined reference toHelp::sayName()' \ main.cpp:(.text+0x2e): undefined reference to
Help::~Help()'
main.cpp:(.text+0x46): undefined reference to `Help::~Help()'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
#include <iostream>
#include "Help.h"
using namespace std;
int main () {
Help h;
h.sayName();
// ***
// ***
// ***
return 0;
}
#ifndef HELP_H
#define HELP_H
class Help {
public:
Help();
~Help();
void sayName();
protected:
private:
};
#endif // HELP_H
#include <iostream>
#include "Help.h"
using namespace std;
Help::Help() { // Constructor
}
Help::~Help() { // Destructor
}
void Help::sayName() {
cout << " ***************" << endl;
cout << " ************************************" << endl;
cout << " ************" << endl;
cout << " *********************" << endl;
}
You can fix undefined reference in C++ by investigating the linker error messages and then providing the missing definition for the given symbols. Note that not all linker errors are undefined references, and the same programmer error does not cause all undefined reference errors.
You can fix the errors by including the source code file that contains the definitions as part of the compilation. Alternatively, you can pass . obj files or . lib files that contain the definitions to the linker.
c file. The error: undefined reference to function show() has appeared on the terminal shell as predicted. To solve this error, simply open the file and make the name of a function the same in its function definition and function call. So, we used to show(), i.e., small case names to go further.
g++ command is a GNU c++ compiler invocation command, which is used for preprocessing, compilation, assembly and linking of source code to generate an executable file. The different “options” of g++ command allow us to stop this process at the intermediate stage.
Use
g++ main.cpp Help.cpp
You have to tell the compiler all the files that you want it to compile, not just the first one.
You should add help.o to your g++ line:
g++ -c help.cpp -o help.o
g++ help.o main.cpp
By splitting it to two lines you can save compilation time (in case of larger projects), because you can compile help.cpp
only when it was changed. make
and Makefile
used well will save you a lot of headache:
#Makefile
all: main
main: help main.cpp
g++ -o main help.o main.cpp
help: help.cpp
g++ -c -o help.o help.cpp
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