So I tried building my program again using the libraw 0.21.1 binaries provided for macos..

I used the command

g++ --std=c++17 -I/Users/aayush/Downloads/LibRaw-0.21.1/libraw -L/Users/aayush/Downloads/LibRaw-0.21.1/lib base64.cpp Server-mac.cpp -o Ninja -lm /Users/aayush/Downloads/LibRaw-0.21.1/lib/libraw.a

and I seem to get the following error

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"_uncompress", referenced from:
LibRaw::deflate_dng_load_raw() in libraw.a(fp_dng.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1

I also tried using -lraw instead of adding the full path name to libraw.a still got the same error