Build error: Undefined reference to symbol 'dlclose@@GLIBC_2.2.5'

Owned by Moein Porkamel
Last updated: ene 15, 2015 by DuarteD
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Problem

When compiling on Linux with MariaDB the following error might happen:

Linking CXX executable bnetserver
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libmariadbclient_r.a(client_plugin.c.o): undefined reference to symbol 'dlclose@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
//lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [src/server/bnetserver/bnetserver] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/server/bnetserver/CMakeFiles/bnetserver.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Solution

The package libmysql++-dev installs MariaDB instead of MySQL (problem confirmed in Ubuntu 14.04).

  1. sudo apt-get remove libmysql++-dev
  2. sudo apt-get remove mariadb-common
  3. Install libmysqlclient-dev
    1. Download package from: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libmysqlclient-dev
    2. Install it (e.g sudo dpkg -i libmysqlclient-dev_5.5.40-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb)
  4. Install libmysql++-dev
    1. Download package from: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/devel/libmysql++-dev
    2. Install it (e.g sudo dpkg -i libmysql++-dev_3.2.0+pristine-1_amd64.deb.deb)