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Subject:	Re: Can't link to libpopt
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On 08/01/2018 17:07, Trevor Barton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to use libpopt but I can't link to it using -lpopt to gcc 
> because libpopt.a doesn't exist in /lib or /usr/lib.
> 
> I have an up-to-date 64 bit installation and I have all of 
> libpopt-common, libpopt-devel and libpopt0 installed at the current 
> version 1.16.2.  In my /lib and /usr/lib directories I have 
> libpopt.dll.a, but no libpopt.a, unlike, for example, libreadline, which 
> has libreadline.a and libreadline.dll.a.
> 
> I can link successfully using -lpopt.dll however.  I presume, but can't 
> seem to find any information, that linking against libThing.a and 
> libThing.dll.a, where both are available, gives wither a static or 
> dynamic link?
> 
> I always used to be able to link against libpopt.a, but I think that was 
> always in an older 32bit installation, I may never have tried to build 
> this program in the 64-bit environment.
> 
> Can anyone give me any pointers please?  Can I generate libpopt.a 
> somehow?  Or should it really be there and there is an error in the 
> cygwin package?
> 
> Cheers,
> Trevor

install popt-devel

https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fpopt-devel%2Fpopt-devel-1.16-1&grep=libpopt.a

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