FAQ:Compiling

This section covers issues related to compiling the Net-SNMP software suite.

1. How do I control the environment used to compile the software?
2. How do I control the environment used to compile the software under Windows?
3. Why does the compilation complain about missing libraries?
4. How can I reduce the memory footprint?
5. How can I reduce the installation footprint or speed up compilation?
6. How can I compile the project for use on an embedded system?
7. How can I compile the project to use static linking?
8. Why does 'make test' skip various tests?
9. Why does 'make test' complain about a pid file?

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Other FAQ Sections

The other sections are:

   FAQ:General
   FAQ:Applications
   FAQ:Perl
   FAQ:MIBs
   FAQ:Agent
   FAQ:Compiling
   FAQ:Coding
   FAQ:Misc

When I write a Dynamically Loadable Object that can be loaded into the SNMP agent, I encountered some questions. First I have written Makefile, then make. The errors were reported that "[['libnetsnmpagent.so: undefined reference to `perl_free'']] " . Then I don't know how to solove it.