Installing libcheck in fedora 26 but fails to link

Question

I use libcheck in my C code for testing. I installed it using RPM (current version). In the folder /usr/lib64 i can find libcheck.so.0 and libsubunit.so.0. I did encounter however the following problems:

• The header file was not in /usr/include, i copied it there myself
• I'm not able to link the library using -lcheck of using - L/user/lib64/libcheck.so.0

i'm not sure if i did something wrong during the installation or why this is going so terribly. Any advice?

Answer 1

You need to install the check-devel package in addition to check. It contains both the header file in /usr/include and the .so library file which enables linking.

This is documented in various places, for example in the packaging guidelines.