Why am I getting "undefined reference to `dladdr'" even with -ldl for this simple program?

Question

I'm working through an LLVM Tutorial, but I'm having trouble compiling. I've written a minimal example that reproduces the issue:

#include "llvm/Module.h"
#include "llvm/LLVMContext.h"

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    llvm::Module *module = new llvm::Module("test", llvm::getGlobalContext());
    return 0;
}

When I try to compile, I get a bunch of 'undefined reference' erros:

clang++ `llvm-config --cxxflags`   -c -o test.o test.cpp
clang++  test.o  `llvm-config --ldflags --libs core` -o test
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(Signals.o): In function `PrintStackTrace(void*)':
(.text+0x6c): undefined reference to `dladdr'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(Signals.o): In function `PrintStackTrace(void*)':
(.text+0x1f6): undefined reference to `dladdr'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(Mutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::MutexImpl::MutexImpl(bool)':
(.text+0x53): undefined reference to `pthread_mutexattr_init'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(Mutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::MutexImpl::MutexImpl(bool)':
(.text+0x64): undefined reference to `pthread_mutexattr_settype'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(Mutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::MutexImpl::MutexImpl(bool)':
(.text+0x74): undefined reference to `pthread_mutexattr_setpshared'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(Mutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::MutexImpl::MutexImpl(bool)':
(.text+0x88): undefined reference to `pthread_mutexattr_destroy'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(Mutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::MutexImpl::tryacquire()':
(.text+0x179): undefined reference to `pthread_mutex_trylock'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(RWMutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::RWMutexImpl::RWMutexImpl()':
(.text+0x3e): undefined reference to `pthread_rwlock_init'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(RWMutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::RWMutexImpl::~RWMutexImpl()':
(.text+0x80): undefined reference to `pthread_rwlock_destroy'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(RWMutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::RWMutexImpl::reader_acquire()':
(.text+0xb9): undefined reference to `pthread_rwlock_rdlock'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(RWMutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::RWMutexImpl::reader_release()':
(.text+0xe9): undefined reference to `pthread_rwlock_unlock'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(RWMutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::RWMutexImpl::writer_acquire()':
(.text+0x119): undefined reference to `pthread_rwlock_wrlock'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(RWMutex.o): In function `llvm::sys::RWMutexImpl::writer_release()':
(.text+0x149): undefined reference to `pthread_rwlock_unlock'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(Threading.o): In function `llvm::llvm_execute_on_thread(void (*)(void*), void*, unsigned int)':
(.text+0x1cc): undefined reference to `pthread_create'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(Threading.o): In function `llvm::llvm_execute_on_thread(void (*)(void*), void*, unsigned int)':
(.text+0x208): undefined reference to `pthread_attr_setstacksize'
/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(Threading.o): In function `llvm::llvm_execute_on_thread(void (*)(void*), void*, unsigned int)':
(.text+0x228): undefined reference to `pthread_join'
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [test] Error 1

If I view the manpage for dladdr, it says that I need to link with -ldl. But I'm already doing that with llvm-config:

$ llvm-config --ldflags --libs core
-L/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib  -lpthread -lffi -ldl -lm 
-lLLVMCore -lLLVMSupport -L/usr/lib/llvm-2.9/lib

Additionally, -ldl appears in the correct order (i.e., after the .o file that requires the symbols).

I'm at a loss for the next step in debugging this issue. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm running LVVM 2.9-7 on Ubuntu 12.04.

Answer 1

The library requiring the symbols is included by -lLLVMSupport, so -ldl must come after -lLLVMSupport. I changed this:

`llvm-config --ldflags --libs core`

To this:

`llvm-config --libs core` `llvm-config --ldflags`

And the linker was successful.