# Unable to run C++ kafka-serdes-avro-console-producer

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/unable-to-run-c-kafka-serdes-avro-console-producer/5772>\
**Category:** Non-Java Clients\
**Created:** [14 August 2022 11:29 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/unable-to-run-c-kafka-serdes-avro-console-producer/5772 "2022-08-14T11:29:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alchemist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/34f0e0/32.png) [@Alchemist](https://forum.confluent.io/u/Alchemist)\
**Post date:** [14 August 2022 11:29 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/unable-to-run-c-kafka-serdes-avro-console-producer/5772/1 "2022-08-14T11:29:50Z")

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**Error Detail**  
/libserdes/examples/kafka-serdes-avro-console-producer.cpp:331: undefined reference to `RdKafka::Producer::create(RdKafka::Conf const*, std::string&)' /remote/vgrnd104/rachana/081222/libserdes/examples/kafka-serdes-avro-console-producer.cpp:363: undefined reference to `RdKafka::err2str(RdKafka::ErrorCode)’  
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status  
make: \*\*\* [kafka-serdes-avro-console-producer] Error 1

**Make Detail**  
/libserdes/examples % make kafka-serdes-avro-console-producer  
g++ -g -O2 -fPIC -Wall -Wsign-compare -Wfloat-equal -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -I…/src -Wno-non-virtual-dtor --std=c++11 -I…/src -I…/src-cpp -D\_GLIBCXX\_USE\_CXX11\_ABI=0 -I…/output/include …/output/lib/libserdes.a …/output/lib/libserdes++.a …/output/lib/librdkafka++.a kafka-serdes-avro-console-producer.cpp   
-o kafka-serdes-avro-console-producer …/output/lib/libserdes++.a …/output/lib/librdkafka++.a …/output/lib/libserdes.a -L…/output/lib -lrt -lpthread -lcurl -ljansson -lavrocpp -lavro -lrdkafka++ -lrdkafka