Embedding Python in C, linking fails with undefined reference to `Py_Initialize'

Question

I am trying to compile the example from the docs https://docs.python.org/2.7/extending/embedding.html and my code looks exactly like the one under 5.1:

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Answer 1

The accepted answer uses system's default library location.

If you are within an anaconda environment, library location may not be found. I tend to give locations more explicitly during linking, like:

gcc embedpy.o -L$(python-config --prefix)/lib $(python-config --ldflags)

This will not work outside anaconda environment in 64-bit library, in which case:

gcc embedpy.o -L$(python-config --prefix)/lib64 $(python-config --ldflags)