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Subject: Re: ld library problems
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:04:27 -0000
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> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:41:53PM -0000, Aaron Gray wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:09:51PM -0000, Aaron Gray wrote:
>>>> I have some Linux code that uses ld and ld finds '.a' archive files
>>>> when given a -L path.  Cygwin's ld is not seeing these files and I have
>>>> to specifically list them with -l.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone shine some light on this ?  Do I have to use '.la' ?  Or what ?
>>> We can't shed light on this without details.  Please provide some
>>> specific examples.
>>
>> From what I am seeing (this is not a tested example)
>>
>> Given 'libTest2.a' in '/usr/build/Debug/lib'
>>
>>    g++ -share -L/usr/build/Debug/lib test.o -o test.dll
>>
>> This fails to find test2.a on Cygwin where it is found on Linux.
>
> I doubt that test2 would be found on any platform since you didn't
> specify it on the command line.
>
> However, we won't get far on untested examples.  You need to provide
> specifics not supposition.

Its in a large project. So I will have to produce a bare test case. Will do 
so tomorrow as I would like to get to the bottom of this.

Aaron


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