Problems compiling an external library on linux...

Question

So I am trying to compile the libssh2 library on linux, but when I try to compile the example it comes up with a lot of errors, and even though I include the headerfile it asks for, it still asks for it. Here are the error messages and the resulting messages:

~/ gcc -include /home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/src/libssh2_config.h -o lolbaise /home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/example/scp.c
/home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/example/scp.c:7:28: error: libssh2_config.h: No such file or directory
/home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/example/scp.c: In function 'main':
/home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/example/scp.c:39: error: storage size of 'sin' isn't known
/home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/example/scp.c:81: error: 'AF_INET' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/example/scp.c:81: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/example/scp.c:81: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/example/scp.c:81: error: 'SOCK_STREAM' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/example/scp.c:87: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct sockaddr_in'

Here is the new errors:

scp.c:(.text+0x106): undefined reference to `libssh2_init'
scp.c:(.text+0x1fe): undefined reference to `libssh2_session_init_ex'
scp.c:(.text+0x234): undefined reference to `libssh2_session_startup'
scp.c:(.text+0x288): undefined reference to `libssh2_hostkey_hash'
scp.c:(.text+0x36f): undefined reference to `libssh2_userauth_password_ex'
scp.c:(.text+0x3e7): undefined reference to `libssh2_userauth_publickey_fromfile_ex'
scp.c:(.text+0x437): undefined reference to `libssh2_scp_recv'
scp.c:(.text+0x531): undefined reference to `libssh2_channel_read_ex'
scp.c:(.text+0x5f8): undefined reference to `libssh2_channel_free'
scp.c:(.text+0x628): undefined reference to `libssh2_session_disconnect_ex'
scp.c:(.text+0x636): undefined reference to `libssh2_session_free'
scp.c:(.text+0x66e): undefined reference to `libssh2_exit'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Answer 1

The header file is not included: libssh2_config.h

There is an inclusion directive in the source code, so you have to indicate the path to the header with the -I option: gcc -I/home/Roosevelt/libssh2-1.2.5/src

The -include option shall be used to include a header file which is not explicitly included in the source code with a #include directive.

Answer 2

I just cloned the current git build and went into the 1.2.5 relase but I'm unable to reproduce your problem.

./buildconf
/.configure
make

works fine. What are you trying to do exactly?