libpng "png_set_longjmp_fn" not found

c++ compiler-errors libpng
foothill picture foothill · Feb 4, 2014 · Viewed 10.1k times · Source

I'm using libpng from ubuntu and when I try to compile a c++ file I get

undefined reference to `png_set_longjmp_fn'

I'm using libpng version 1.6.8

If you are interested in reading the code please let me know, but I do not this has to do with my bad code.

Thank you in advance.

Answer

Glenn Randers-Pehrson picture Glenn Randers-Pehrson · Feb 5, 2014

Perhaps you have built with libpng-1.6.8 but are linking to an earlier version of libpng. The "png_set_longjmp_fn()" API was introduced in libpng-1.4.x. Ubuntu 13:10 currently comes with libpng-1.2.49 (see /usr/include/libpng12), which does not supply png_set_longjmp_fn().

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