gSOAP - Undefined References Error in Windows using gcc.exe

Question

I'm basically a java developer and i have a web services created using java. Now I need a client coded with C , to consume that java WS. After surfing a lot, I landed with gSOAP cos of its support of WS.

Now, I was able to generate the header file and also the corresponding stub classes. I also have created a main class that will invoke the actual proxy method., but for some reasons my code is not getting compiled at all.

Steps of what am I doing:

1. wsdl2h.exe -c -o calc.h calc.wsdl
2. soapcpp2.exe -C calc.h
3. gcc.exe -o CalcClient CalcClient.c soapC.c soapClient.c stdsoap2.c

The first two steps are fine, but its only the 3 step thats giving the trouble with the undefined references error. Please note that am running the above in windows platform and the gcc compiler is provided by Bloodshed Dev tool.

The error that i get when performing step 3 is (copied a few lines..),
CalcClient.C:5: undefined reference to soap_new_LIBRARY_VERSION_REQUIRED_20816'
CalcClient.C:7: undefined reference tosoap_call_ns2__add'
CalcClient.C:10: undefined reference to soap_print_fault'
CalcClient.C:11: undefined reference tosoap_end'
and C:\TEMP/ccS0iaaa.o(.text+0x129):stdsoap2.c: undefined reference to sendto@24'
C:\TEMP/ccS0iaaa.o(.text+0x154):stdsoap2.c: undefined reference tosend@16'
C:\TEMP/ccS0iaaa.o(.text+0x224):stdsoap2.c: undefined reference to sendto@24'
C:\TEMP/ccS0iaaa.o(.text+0x24f):stdsoap2.c: undefined reference tosend@16'
C:\TEMP/ccS0iaaa.o(.text+0x28b):stdsoap2.c: undefined reference to WSAGetLastError@0'
C:\TEMP/ccS0iaaa.o(.text+0x4a9b):stdsoap2.c: undefined reference toinet_addr@4

I know am definitely doing something wrong (as i'm new to C).I tried all the options which I can think of, Could you please help me out here?

Answer 1

I had the similar problem. It was mainly because i was not including stdsoap2.cpp or stdsoap2.c. I coppied stdsoap2.cpp file into the project folder from gsoap folder, then i ran the program and it worked fine.