Linking issues with libjpeg

Question

I have a game I'm writing which recently required libjpeg. I wrote some code using libjpeg on some-other-machine and it worked as expected. I pulled the code to this machine and tried compiling and running it and have been getting the runtime error out of libjpeg:

Wrong JPEG library version: library is 62, caller expects 80

If I use ldd to see what the binary is linked to, I get:

ldd Debug/tc | grep jpeg libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62 (0x00007f50f02f2000)

My compile flags include -ljpeg. The current jpeg related shared objects in my /usr/lib looks like this:

find | grep jpeg | xargs ls -l --color
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  61256 2011-09-26 15:43 ./gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-jpeg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5912 2011-10-01 06:40 ./grub/i386-pc/jpeg.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  40264 2011-08-24 05:41 ./gstreamer-0.10/libgstjpegformat.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  78064 2011-08-24 05:41 ./gstreamer-0.10/libgstjpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  17920 2011-09-27 17:30 ./i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 2011-08-10 14:07 ./i386-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62 -> libjpeg.so.62.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145068 2011-08-10 14:07 ./i386-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  30440 2011-09-30 05:25 ./i386-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/imageformats/libqjpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    924 2011-06-15 05:05 ./ImageMagick-6.6.0/modules-Q16/coders/jpeg.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  39504 2011-06-15 05:05 ./ImageMagick-6.6.0/modules-Q16/coders/jpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10312 2011-06-03 00:18 ./imlib2/loaders/jpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  43072 2011-10-21 19:11 ./jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libjpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  23184 2011-10-14 02:46 ./kde4/jpegthumbnail.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132632 2009-04-30 00:24 ./libopenjpeg-2.1.3.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     22 2009-04-30 00:24 ./libopenjpeg.so.2 -> libopenjpeg-2.1.3.0.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  23224 2011-08-03 04:20 ./libquicktime2/lqt_mjpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27208 2011-08-03 04:20 ./libquicktime2/lqt_rtjpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  47800 2011-09-24 10:12 ./strigi/strigiea_jpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3091 2011-05-18 05:25 ./syslinux/com32/include/tinyjpeg.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  22912 2011-09-27 17:38 ./x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226798 2011-08-10 14:06 ./x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    935 2011-08-10 14:06 ./x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 2011-08-10 14:06 ./x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so -> libjpeg.so.62.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 2011-10-15 10:50 ./x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62 -> libjpeg.so.62.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150144 2011-08-10 14:06 ./x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2011-10-15 10:50 ./x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8 -> libjpeg.so.8.3.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 2011-11-30 01:25 ./x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8.3.0.bak -> ./libjpeg.so.62.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31488 2011-09-30 05:13 ./x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/imageformats/libqjpeg.so

The original machine runs Gentoo, 'this' machine runs Ubuntu 11.10. Both are 64-bit. The gentoo box only has libjpeg version 8, it seems.

Ultimately, my question is: How can I resolve this? I'd also like to know how I can determine exactly which library the linker has used.

EDIT: My game also links to SDL_image, which according to ldd, links to libjpeg version 8. I bet this is where my troubles stem from. How can I tell gcc to link my game to libjpeg version 8? I tried -l/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.whatever and it complained about not finding the specified lib.

Answer 1

Please use LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Refer to these useful links as well:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html

Answer 2

Following link solved the issue for me. How do you link to a specific version of a shared library in GCC

Excerpt from the link that helped me-

Instead of using "-lcurl" use "-l:libcurl.so.3" And ofcourse also use "-L _installed_path_"

My error was the reverse- "Wrong JPEG library version: library is 80, caller expects 62"

To find out which jpeg library my binary was linked against, I did-

ldd my_binary | grep jpeg

output was-

libjpeg.so.8 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8

Clearly, the binary was depending on libjpeg8 (library 80), which was why I was getting the error.

To find out if I really had libjpeg62 in my system, I did

ldconfig -p | grep jpeg

output was-

libplayerjpeg.so.3.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libplayerjpeg.so.3.0
libopenjpeg.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libopenjpeg.so.2
libjpeg.so.62 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62
libjpeg.so.62 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62
libjpeg.so.8 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8
libjpeg.so.8 (libc6) => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8
libjpeg.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so
libjpeg.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so

So in my case, instead of just using -ljpeg, I used this (in the make file)-

-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ -l:libjpeg.so.62

Don't forget to replace #include (jpeglib.h> in your cpp file with

extern "C" {
#include "jpeglib.h" }