From:	"Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Timothy Stallmann <fenris AT geocities DOT com> wrote in message
news:3756E923 DOT 9CCF52D0 AT geocities DOT com...
> I've been trying to set up the gpc pascal compiler under djgpp, and have
> installed all the necesarry djgpp stuff, but whenever I try to use the
> linker, the option -l that according to the help for gpc is supposed to
> take a library name as the argument gives me an error. When ever I try
> for example:
> ld test.o -l libgpc.a,
> I get an error message "Cannot find file -llibgpc.a, unrecognized file
> type" Also, it seems that some of the other switches, like directories
> to search, etc, don't work. Has anyone else run into this problem?

1. There should be no space between the -l and the library.
2. Try just -lgpc, because normally the lib is automatically appended.

Well, those will only work assuming that ld's parameters work the same way
as gcc's.

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