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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:21:13 -0400
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin gcc user library question
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In-Reply-To: <3909C5CE.A4755E4A@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>; from eho@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 06:09:34PM +0100

On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 06:09:34PM +0100, eho wrote:
>Hi there! I tried to use cygwin gcc to compile and link a c program
>under NT. The program uses a library that exists in a lib directory with
>a name abc.Lib. But when I specify the GCC command:
>gcc xxxxxx.c -labc -L ./lib, I got the ld error cannot open -labc. What
>should be the proper way to specify my abc library in the gcc command
>under NT? Thanks

Cygwin uses the UNIX convention of naming libraries libabc.a, so you'd
do something like this:

gcc xxxxxx.c -L ./lib -labc

or

gcc xxxxxx.c lib/libabc.a

or

gcc xxxxxx.c lib/abc.lib


cgf

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