Weird problem porting application. Undefined reference errors in standard libraries

Question

Hello, I've recently been trying to port a C++ application. I believe I have all of it's dependencies and such and it all compiles. But then, when it goes to link it I get a lot of weird undefined reference errors.

/usr/local/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.7.0: undefined reference to `std::basic_istream<char, std::char_traits<char> >::seekg(long, std::_Ios_Seekdir)'
/usr/local/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.7.0: undefined reference to `std::basic_string<wchar_t, std::char_traits<wchar_t>, std::allocator<wchar_t> >::_S_empty_rep_storage'
/usr/local/lib/libxml++-2.6.so.0.1: undefined reference to `std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::_S_empty_rep_storage'
/usr/local/lib/libxml++-2.6.so.0.1: undefined reference to `std::__default_alloc_template<true, 0>::deallocate(void*, unsigned long)'

What can cause this kind of errors? What do the linking errors mean? I can't really understand the complicated template error messages that gcc gives..

The linking command in it's entirety:

gmake[3]: Entering directory `/home/earlz/synfig-0.62.00/src/tool'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=link eg++ -I/usr/local/include/libxml++-2.6 -I/usr/local/lib/libxml++-2.6/include -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/local/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -DSYNFIG_NO_DEPRECATED -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DNDEBUG -O2 -W -Wall   -o synfig synfig-main.o ../synfig/libsynfig.la -L/usr/local/lib -lxml++-2.6 -lxml2 -lglibmm-2.4 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv -lsigc-2.0 -lpthread -L/usr/local/lib -lsigc-2.0 -L/usr/local/lib -lintl -L/usr/local/lib -liconv  -lpthread
libtool: link: eg++ -I/usr/local/include/libxml++-2.6 -I/usr/local/lib/libxml++-2.6/include -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/local/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -DSYNFIG_NO_DEPRECATED -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DNDEBUG -O2 -W -Wall -o .libs/synfig synfig-main.o  -L../synfig/.libs -lsynfig -L/usr/local/lib -lxml++-2.6 -lxml2 -lm -lz -lglibmm-2.4 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lpcre -lsigc-2.0 -lintl -liconv -lpthread -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib

Also, I do not get any kind of linking errors about missing files, just stuff about weird string and filestream stuff missing

Answer 1

Use g++ to link C++ applications, that add C++ standard libraries to the link phase.