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I am working on understanding a fellow physicist's code in C that uses Lapack, which I have never used before. I used sudo apt-get to install lapack. and I've been compiling with 

gcc -llapack Dirac.c -o Dirac -lm

and I'm getting the compiling error "undefined reference to 'zheev'" I know zheev is a function in lapack, so I'm figuring something went wrong with the install or something is not in the right place. Can someone please explain if i need to do some kind of linking or where i need to save things to get this to compile? I apologize if this is a noob question.

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You need to put the library at the end of compilation when you are linking the program:

gcc Dirac.c -o Dirac -llapack -lm

The way the linking process works is that the library is used to find unresolved symbols that have come up so far. When you put -llapack first, since there are not yet any unresolved symbols in your program (since it hadn't compiled anything yet), it doesn't end up using the library.

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