undefined reference to `_imp__PathRemoveFileSpecW@4'

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 13 June 2017 at 16:02, Peter Bushnell wrote:
> The error I'm having trying to compile a Qt GUI program on Windows is...
>
> undefined reference to `_imp__PathRemoveFileSpecW@4'
>
> This should be resolved by adding lshlwapi, however that already
> defined at the link below.
>
> https://github.com/kryptkoin/KryptKoin/blob/master/kryptkoin-qt.pro#L383
>
> I've been tinkering with the pro file with no luck. I'm running qmake
> with the above linked pro file as follows.
>
> qmake "USE_QRCODE=1" "USE_UPNP=1" "USE_IPV6=1" kryptkoin-qt.pro
>
> When checking the command line I cannot see lshlwapi in there.

Then that will be why it's not being linked to.

If your build system isn't passing that option to GCC it's not a
problem with GCC.