how to link to an unknown library

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16587828/how-to-link-an-unknown-library

You could use nm to list the symbols defined in the system libraries in order to find which one contains your missing symbol :

find /usr/lib/ -type f -name \*.a \
  -exec nm -gAC --defined-only {} 2> /dev/null \; \
    | grep \ XIQueryVersion

Which outputs:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXi.a:XIQueryVersion.o:00000110 T XIQueryVersion

Then you know you have to link libXi.a, of course you can adjust the library path and symbol name, and that would only work if you already have the right library in your system.