Home/ Questions/Q 8048463
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-05T06:26:50+00:00

While compiling a project i get the following error as c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find lwxmsw28

  • 0

While compiling a project i get the following error as 

c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find lwxmsw28
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [dist/Debug/MinGW-Windows/libRegistration.dll] Error 1
make[1]: *** [.build-conf] Error 2
make: *** [.build-impl] Error 2

I am using wxwidgets libraries however when i ran a command in cmd as

wx-config --libs

i could not see lwxmsw28 either let me know if it is downloadable from somewhere or any workaround to resolve this issue.

Thanks

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    This is a linker error, rather than a compilation error.

    “lwxmsw28” looks to me like a wxwidgets v2.8 microsoft windows library. Should the linker be looking for this? Since you are using mingw, I would think you should NOT be linking to msw libraries. However, I am not familiar with mingw, so maybe this is the name used for mingw libraries.

    If this is the correct library, then the next question is: have you built the wxWidgets libraries? The libraries are NOT “downloadable from somewhere” – you must download the source and build the libraries yourself.

    A simple test to find out if you have built the libraries – try to build one of the sample projects.

    • 0