Compiling C++ code with NetCDF libraries: "undefined reference"

[Alauda]

Hi!

I am trying to compile a C++ code with cmake and gcc on Ubuntu. The code uses NetCDF4 libraries. I specify the path to these libraries as follows:

-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lnetcdf -lnetcdf_c++4

"ccmake" and "cmake" work fine. After typing "make" I receive the error message:

Linking CXX executable guess
CMakeFiles/guess.dir/modules/guessio_daily_netCDF.cpp.o: In function `getYearlyRecord(Coord, double*, xtring, int)':
guessio_daily_netCDF.cpp:(.text+0x8309): undefined reference to `netCDF::NcFile::NcFile(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, netCDF::NcFile::FileMode)'
(...)

I receive the same message when I specify the path to my NetCDF4 libraries with a not-existing path (e.g. -I/blablabla/include ...). As I understand, the linker does not find my NetCDF libraries, correct? Do you have any suggestions on how to solve this problem? Incase it helps, below I include the paths of all my netcdf libraries. The libraries were built with the same compiler (gcc). Thank you very much in advance!

Cheers,
Chris

/usr/share/man/man3/netcdf.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/netcdf_f77.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/netcdf_f90.3f90.gz
/usr/share/doc/netcdf-bin
/usr/share/doc/libnetcdf-dev
/usr/share/doc/libnetcdf6
/usr/share/mime/application/x-netcdf.xml
/usr/lib/libnetcdf_c++.so
/usr/lib/libnetcdff.so
/usr/lib/libnetcdf.a
/usr/lib/netcdf.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/netcdf.pc
/usr/lib/libnetcdf.so.6.0.0
/usr/lib/libnetcdff.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib/libnetcdf.so.6
/usr/lib/libnetcdf_c++.so.5
/usr/lib/libnetcdf.so
/usr/lib/libnetcdf_c++.a
/usr/lib/libnetcdff.so.5
/usr/lib/libnetcdff.a
/usr/lib/libnetcdf_c++.so.5.0.0
/usr/include/netcdf.mod
/usr/include/netcdf.h
/usr/include/hdf/hdf2netcdf.h
/usr/include/hdf/hdf4_netcdf.h
/usr/include/netcdf.hh
/usr/include/netcdf.inc
/usr/include/netcdfcpp.h
/usr/local/lib/libnetcdf_c++4.la
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/netcdf-cxx4.pc
/usr/local/lib/libnetcdf_c++4.so
/usr/local/lib/libnetcdf_c++4.so.1.0.2
/usr/local/lib/libnetcdf_c++4.a
/usr/local/lib/ncarg/data/cdf/sst30e_netcdf.nc
/usr/local/lib/ncarg/data/cdf/sstdata_netcdf.nc
/usr/local/lib/libnetcdf_c++4.so.1
/usr/local/include/netcdf

[Rubberman]

How did you install netCDF? If via the system package manager, then they are probably in /usr/include, not /usr/local/include. Also, did you install the development package, or just the libraries themselves? You need the development package which would include the headers.

[Alauda]

Hi Rubberman!
Thanks for your reply! I built my libraries from source. First I install '"zlib", then "HDF5" and finally "netcdf-4.0.tar.gz" with NetCDF4 enabled:

./configure --enable-netcdf-4 --with-zlib=/usr/local/zlib --with-hdf5=/usr/lib/

As far as I know "netcdf-4.0.tar.gz" is the development package, correct?

Finally, I install "netcdf-cxx4-4.2.tar.gz".

"/usr/local/include" contains:
ncarg ncCheck.h ncEnumType.h ncGroupAtt.h ncOpaqueType.h ncUbyte.h ncvalues.h netcdf netcdf.inc
ncAtt.h ncCompoundType.h ncException.h ncGroup.h ncShort.h ncUint64.h ncVarAtt.h netcdfcpp.h netcdf.mod
ncByte.h ncDim.h ncFile.h ncInt64.h ncString.h ncUint.h ncVar.h netcdf.h typesizes.mod
ncChar.h ncDouble.h ncFloat.h ncInt.h ncType.h ncUshort.h ncVlenType.h netcdf.hh

And "/usr/local/lib" contains:
libblas_ncl.a liblapack_ncl.a libncarg_ras.a libnetcdf_c++4.a libnetcdf_c++4.so.1.0.2 libnfp.a libsphere3.1_dp.a R
libcgm.a libncarg.a libncl.a libnetcdf_c++4.la libnetcdf_c++.a libnfpfort.a ncarg
libfftpack5_dp.a libncarg_c.a libnclapi.a libnetcdf_c++4.so libnetcdf_c++.la libngmath.a pkgconfig
libhlu.a libncarg_gks.a libnetcdf.a libnetcdf_c++4.so.1 libnetcdf.la libnio.a python2.7

So "-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib" should be correct. In case you have any other ideas, please let me know. Thank you ver much!

Cheers,
Chris