g++ compile error: undefined reference to a shared library function which exists

Question

I recently installed the hdf5 library on an ubuntu machine, and am now having trouble linking to the exported functions. I wrote a simple test script re

Answer 1

You forgot to put -lhdf5 in the compile command. Also, there's no need for -l:$HOME/hdf5/lib/libhdf5.so

This should work: $ g++ -Wl,-rpath,$HOME/hdf5/lib -I$HOME/hdf5/include -L$HOME/hdf5/lib -lhdf5 readHDF5.cpp