Embedding Python in C, linking fails with undefined reference to `Py_Initialize'

Question

I am trying to compile the example from the docs https://docs.python.org/2.7/extending/embedding.html and my code looks exactly like the one under 5.1:

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Answer 1

Libraries have to come after the object files when you are linking, so do:

gcc  embedpy.o $(/usr/bin/python2.7-config --ldflags)