pcap "undefined reference to" error - wireshark

Question

I'm trying to read in data from pcap files using pcap_open_offline(). I've used #include <pcap/pcap.h> and compiled with no errors after some debugging. Now I've come across another problem I can't seem to figure out. I wrote the following function:
void openPcap(char* filename){
printf("Opening file %s\n", filename);
pcap_t *pcap;
const unsigned char *packet;
char errbuf[PCAP_ERRBUF_SIZE];
struct pcap_pkthdr header;
pcap = pcap_open_offline(filename, errbuf);
if (pcap == NULL){
fprintf(stderr, "%s Malformed packet records in file %s",ER,filename);
}
}
And my pcap_open_offline call gives me about 100 of these errors when I try to compile:
pcap-linux.c:(.text+0xcd4): undefined reference to 'nl_handle_alloc'
pcap-linux.c:(.text+0xce8): undefined reference to 'genl_connect'
pcap-linux.c:(.text+0xcf6): undefined reference to 'genl_ctrl_alloc_cache'
pcap-linux.c:(.text+0xd0e): undefined reference to 'genl_ctrl_search_by_name'
pcap-linux.c:(.text+0xd64): undefined reference to 'nl_handle_destroy'
pcap-linux.c:(.text+0xdd7): undefined reference to 'nl_cache_free'
This is what my makefile looks like:
# -------------------------------
C=/afs/nd.edu/user14/csesoft/new/bin/gcc
CFLAGS=-Wall -std=c11 -I/afs/nd.edu/coursesp.18/cse/cse30341.01/support/gcc-libpcap/include -D_BSD_SOURCE
LD=/afs/nd.edu/user14/csesoft/new/bin/g++
#LD=g++
LDFLAGS=-lpthread
# # ----------------------------
LDFLAGS += -L/afs/nd.edu/coursesp.18/cse/cse30341.01/support/gcc-libpcap/lib -lpcap # Add your own flags here, or leave blank
threadedRE: threadedRE.o
$(LD) $^ $(LDFLAGS) -o $#
threadedRE.o: threadedRE.c
$(C) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
# C compiler
%.o: %.c
$(C) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
.PHONY: clean
clean:
rm -f threadedRE *.o
And my headers are:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <getopt.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <pcap/pcap.h>
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

It isn't a compiling error, but a linking one. At the end of build process you should see something like "ld exited with error".
pcap_open_offline() seems to use nl_handle_alloc() and other functions, but linker can't find object files containing their implementation. Pointing linker to proper library which contains required object files by adding -lnl to LDFLAGS should do the trick.