From:	Boon van der RJ <rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: how to link to external libraries
Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:31:36 GMT
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Emadeldeen I MUHANNA <emad AT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca> wrote:
>   I have a problem concerning about linking to specific libraries in 
> gcc.  My library resides in c:\dialogic\lib\libdxxmt.lib and 
> c:\dialogic\lib\libsrlmt.lib.  I need to link these two libraries to my 
> program.

You would usually do:
gcc -Lc:/dialogic/lib file.c -o file.exe -lsrlmt -ldxxmt
The -L specifies additional directories to look for libraries, the
-lxyz tells gcc to use libxyz.
I bet there did come a help or info file with your gcc distribution.
Please look under *Invoking GCC* for more information.

> If anyone knows, please reply this message.  By the way, the 
> gcc I used is in winnt platform.  Thank you.

You did realise that this forum is about the DJGPP, the DOS based
programming platform right? If you are using djgpp compiled gcc then
the extension of the libraries should not be .lib but .a If you use
CYGwin or Mingw or lccwin or whatever windows based gcc it might work
this way, but I don't know.

If you are *not* using the djgpp compiled tools, then you'ld better
ask somewhere else.

hth,
 Robert

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