I've been struggling while trying to compile a simple application that uses the libraries of BOINC.

The application can be found on the following website:
http://blog.os-tools.net/en/how-to-create-your-own-work-generator-script-part-1/

My Makefile looks like the following:

INCLUDES= -I. -I$(BOINC_BUILD) \
-I$(BOINC_BUILD)/api \
-I$(BOINC_BUILD)/lib \
-I$(BOINC_BUILD)/db \
-I$(BOINC_BUILD)/sched \
-I$(BOINC_BUILD)/tools \
-I$(BOINC_BUILD)/include/boinc \
-I/usr/include/mysql

##- Libraries:
LIBDIRS= -L. -L$(BOINC_BUILD)/lib \
-L$(BOINC_BUILD)/api \
-L$(BOINC_BUILD)/sched \
-L/usr/lib

LIBS= -lm $(LIBDIRS) -lsched -lmysqlclient -lboinc_api -lboinc -lz

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The error message I am getting is the following:

/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.a(mf_pack.o): In function `unpack_dirname':
(.text+0xac9): warning: Using 'getpwnam' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o): In function `read_user_name':
(.text+0x4271): warning: Using 'getpwuid' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.a(mf_pack.o): In function `unpack_dirname':
(.text+0xae9): warning: Using 'endpwent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.a(my_gethostbyname.o): In function `my_gethostbyname_r':
(.text+0x3c): warning: Using 'gethostbyname_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o): In function `mysql_server_init':
(.text+0x49c2): warning: Using 'getservbyname' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/home/francis/boinc/sched/libsched.a(libsched_la-process_result_template.o): In function `add_signatures(char*, R_RSA_PRIVATE_KEY&)':
/home/francis/boinc/sched/../tools/process_result_template.cpp:63: undefined reference to `generate_signature(char*, char*, R_RSA_PRIVATE_KEY&)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [workgen] Error 1

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When I'm compiling not using -static, I only get the libsched.a error. (saying the function generate_signatures is undefined)
But when I execute the following command:
nm -s libsched.a

I can clearly see that this function (defined in crypt) is 'U'ndefined in that library...
====Library libsched.a====
libsched_la-process_result_template.o:
00000000 D BOINC_RCSID_e5e1e879f3
00000000 T _Z14add_signaturesPcR17R_RSA_PRIVATE_KEY
U _Z18generate_signaturePcS_R17R_RSA_PRIVATE_KEY

Although when crypt is compiled into a library, the symbol is present
====Library libboinc_crypt.a====
000017e0 T _Z18generate_signaturePcS_R17R_RSA_PRIVATE_KEY

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I tried under different platforms (Kubuntu-32bit/64bit)

The version of BOINC is 6.11.1
The version of MySQL is mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.41, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 6.1

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I have put some C++ source code at the following address for extra information: http://ec.codepad.org/qCMZMmz5#output

Thank you.

Francis

I got the same error as you.

Did anyone know a solution to this problem.

Thank you, Loonis