Undefined reference to `pow' and `floor'

Question

I'm trying to make a simple fibonacci calculator in C but when compiling gcc tells me that I'm missing the pow and floor functions. What's wrong?

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int fibo(int n);

int main() {
        printf("Fib(4) = %d", fibo(4));
        return 0;
}

int fibo(int n) {
        double phi = 1.61803399;

        return (int)(floor((float)(pow(phi, n) / sqrt(5)) + .5f));
}

Output:

gab@testvm:~/work/c/fibo$ gcc fib.c -o fibo
/tmp/ccNSjm4q.o: In function `fibo':
fib.c:(.text+0x4a): undefined reference to `pow'
fib.c:(.text+0x68): undefined reference to `floor'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Answer 1

You need to compile with the link flag -lm, like this:

gcc fib.c -lm -o fibo

This will tell gcc to link your code against the math lib. Just be sure to put the flag after the objects you want to link.