Re: Static linking to Connector/C++ on linux giving errors

[Pelle Stormark]

dpkg -l | grep libmysql gives me the following:

ii libmysqlclient-dev 5.7.29-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 MySQL database development files
ii libmysqlclient20:amd64 5.7.29-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 MySQL database client library
ii libmysqlcppconn-dev:amd64 8.0.19-1ubuntu18.04 amd64 Development header files and libraries for MySQL C++ client applications
ii libmysqlcppconn7:amd64 8.0.19-1ubuntu18.04 amd64 MySQL Driver for C++ which mimics the JDBC 4.0 API
ii libmysqlcppconn7-dbgsym:amd64 8.0.19-1ubuntu18.04 amd64 debug symbols for libmysqlcppconn7
ii libmysqlcppconn8-2:amd64 8.0.19-1ubuntu18.04 amd64 MySQL database connector for C++
ii libmysqlcppconn8-2-dbgsym:amd64 8.0.19-1ubuntu18.04 amd64 debug symbols for libmysqlcppconn8-2

This should be correct. I removed the 32-bit and installed the missing ones. The 32-bit package might have been the reason for dynamic linking not working. I still get the following error when linking statically:

/tmp/ccc6BRyC.o: In function `mysqlx::abi2::r0::string::traits<char>::to_str[abi:cxx11](mysqlx::abi2::r0::string const&)':
main.cc:(.text._ZN6mysqlx4abi22r06string6traitsIcE6to_strB5cxx11ERKS2_[_ZN6mysqlx4abi22r06string6traitsIcE6to_strB5cxx11ERKS2_]+0x2e): undefined reference to `mysqlx::abi2::r0::string::Impl::to_utf8[abi:cxx11](mysqlx::abi2::r0::string const&)'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I'm using this compiler statement:

g++ main.cc -o test -I /usr/include/mysql-cppconn-8/include /usr/include/mysql-cppconn-8/lib64/libmysqlcppconn8-static.a -lssl -lcrypto -lpthread -lresolv

So, the error here doesn't seem to be related to the packages mentioned. Any idea?