[c++] Skipping Incompatible Libraries at compile

When I try to compile a copy of my project on my local machine, I get an error stating that it 's skipping over incompatible libraries. This isn't the case when I'm messing around with the live version hosted on the server at work [it makes perfectly there].

Various other sites have lead me to believe that this might be an environment issue, as I'm developing on a 64-bit distro of Ubuntu and I assume the server version is running on 32-bit. Nevertheless, after setting my environment variables to:

CFLAGS+=" -m32"
CXXFLAGS+=" -m32"

I still receive the same compile error of:

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /dvlpmnt/libPI-Http.a when searching for -lPI-Http

Can haz tutorial?

==Edit==

This was the output I recieved when I followed Jonathan's advice:

http.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

Apparently, the library in question is 32-bit after all?

This question is related to c++ 64-bit compilation 32-bit conflicting-libraries

The answer is


Normally, that is not an error per se; it is a warning that the first file it found that matches the -lPI-Http argument to the compiler/linker is not valid. The error occurs when no other library can be found with the right content.

So, you need to look to see whether /dvlpmnt/libPI-Http.a is a library of 32-bit object files or of 64-bit object files - it will likely be 64-bit if you are compiling with the -m32 option. Then you need to establish whether there is an alternative libPI-Http.a or libPI-Http.so file somewhere else that is 32-bit. If so, ensure that the directory that contains it is listed in a -L/some/where argument to the linker. If not, then you will need to obtain or build a 32-bit version of the library from somewhere.

To establish what is in that library, you may need to do:

mkdir junk
cd junk
ar x /dvlpmnt/libPI-Http.a
file *.o
cd ..
rm -fr junk

The 'file' step tells you what type of object files are in the archive. The rest just makes sure you don't make a mess that can't be easily cleaned up.


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