From:	"Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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Subject:	Re: Linking to a library, while compiling
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"samidee" <djseblive AT infonie DOT fr> wrote:

> I'm very new in Djgpp stuff, and i have a problem while compiling. I need
to
> indicate Djgpp where a library i need to include is, but, after many
tries,
> it's not able to find it.
> Here what i've tried ( the library i need is in the c:\mysql\lib\debug\
> directory and is called mysqlclient.lib)
>
> gcc -o test.exe test.c -L c:\mysql\lib\debug - l mysqlclient.lib

DJGPP is based on GNU's Unix C/C++ compiler GCC.
GCC's linker does not accept .lib format libraries. You'll have to
get the source code, port it to GCC, and make a .a format library.


Damian Yerrick

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