Subject: Re: Dumb Question on GCC
From: Brian Dessent <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 16:46:58 -0700

Martin Gainty wrote:
> 
> $ gcc SLPReg.c -L./ -llibcommonlibslp.a -llibcommonslpd.a
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> cannot fi
> nd -llibcommonlibslp.a
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I put c files, o.files, lib and all files local in same directory  and the
> linker still cant find anything Is there any doc on how this works?

Try "-lcommonlibslp -lcommonslp" although you probably only need one and
not both.  The -l parameter prepends "lib" and knows to search for the
correct library entension.  So if you have libfoo.a in /usr/lib, you
just add -lfoo to gcc's command line.

Brian

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