William Torrez Corea <willitc9888@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 5:00 PM Rob Sargent <robjsargent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Nov 26, 2022, at 3:43 PM, William Torrez Corea <willitc9888@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> Compile the code: >>> *sudo cc -o testprog testprog1.o testprog2.o -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib -lpq* >>> But i get the following error: >>> *collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status* The useful info would be in the lines right before that one. That one just tells you that cc is giving up because of prior errors. >> And do you have at hand why the loader (ld) failed? > Package libpq was not found in the pkg-config search path. > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libpq.pc' > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable I do not believe that a bare cc invocation would produce any complaints about pkg-config. Are you showing us something unrelated to the stated command? BTW, it's pretty hard to believe that you need to use sudo for this. regards, tom lane
