I am trying to access png pixel data in my C code on. I found this library libpng. I downloaded latest version from this site, I am using Ubuntu 14.04. I followed the instructions in the INSTALL file. Everything went well. And then I tried to compile with gcc this piece of code. But I received this:

/tmp/ccWa9LDO.o: In function `read_png_file':
test.c:(.text+0x13c): undefined reference to `png_sig_cmp'
test.c:(.text+0x16f): undefined reference to `png_create_read_struct'
test.c:(.text+0x1a0): undefined reference to `png_create_info_struct'
test.c:(.text+0x1db): undefined reference to `png_set_longjmp_fn'
test.c:(.text+0x20c): undefined reference to `png_init_io'
test.c:(.text+0x220): undefined reference to `png_set_sig_bytes'
test.c:(.text+0x239): undefined reference to `png_read_info'
test.c:(.text+0x252): undefined reference to `png_get_image_width'
test.c:(.text+0x271): undefined reference to `png_get_image_height'
test.c:(.text+0x290): undefined reference to `png_get_color_type'
test.c:(.text+0x2af): undefined reference to `png_get_bit_depth'
test.c:(.text+0x2c4): undefined reference to `png_set_interlace_handling'
test.c:(.text+0x2e3): undefined reference to `png_read_update_info'
test.c:(.text+0x2fc): undefined reference to `png_set_longjmp_fn'
test.c:(.text+0x36f): undefined reference to `png_get_rowbytes'
test.c:(.text+0x3b2): undefined reference to `png_read_image'
/tmp/ccWa9LDO.o: In function `write_png_file':
test.c:(.text+0x430): undefined reference to `png_create_write_struct'
test.c:(.text+0x461): undefined reference to `png_create_info_struct'
test.c:(.text+0x49c): undefined reference to `png_set_longjmp_fn'
test.c:(.text+0x4cd): undefined reference to `png_init_io'
test.c:(.text+0x4e6): undefined reference to `png_set_longjmp_fn'
test.c:(.text+0x559): undefined reference to `png_set_IHDR'
test.c:(.text+0x572): undefined reference to `png_write_info'
test.c:(.text+0x58b): undefined reference to `png_set_longjmp_fn'
test.c:(.text+0x5bf): undefined reference to `png_write_image'
test.c:(.text+0x5d8): undefined reference to `png_set_longjmp_fn'
test.c:(.text+0x607): undefined reference to `png_write_end'
/tmp/ccWa9LDO.o: In function `process_file':
test.c:(.text+0x692): undefined reference to `png_get_color_type'
test.c:(.text+0x6be): undefined reference to `png_get_color_type'
test.c:(.text+0x6db): undefined reference to `png_get_color_type'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I don't understand it because I would expect that if there is problem with installation I would get errors just for including png.h.

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3 Answers

You said in the comments that you use gcc my_code.c, try

gcc my_code.c -lpng

The -l flag links a library, in this case libpng12-dev.

Linking means that your compiler adds the code from all the object files to create a single executable file. The object files are the separate compiled source code files (the .o files).

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I don't know english very well, but I will try to help you.
I was getting this issues about 2 days, the solution is so simple, let's see.

try to do this: gcc my_code.c -lpng
afterwards you will get some file like a.out, then you need to have some picture png in same directory.

after, type this: ./a.out png_file.png res.png

The output file will be called res.png.

I think you installed only the PNG processing library. You will have to install the header files that can reference the library installed. So Install 'dev' package also like this

 sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev 

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