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Subject: RE: cannot link with libtiff
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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 08:26:40 +1100
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michaela und Daniel Weiß [mailto:M_D DOT Weiss AT t-online DOT de] 
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 8:06 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: cannot link with libtiff
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I haven't found this problem in the mailing list archive:
> 
> I have been trying to use libtiff (tiff-3.5.7-1) in my 
> program (using daily updated cygwin version). According to 
> the announcement (Charles Wilson on Feb 10th):
> 
> <BEGIN QUOTE>
> Now uses the auto-import functionality of newer binutils, and 
> doesn't use __declspec(dllimport).  This means you no longer 
> need "-DTIFF_STATIC -DJPEG_STATIC -DZLIB_STATIC" or even 
> -DALL_STATIC when compiling objects intended for static 
> linking. Just compile as normal. (...) NO special flags at 
> compile-time nor link-time when linking to dynamic links. <END QUOTE>
> 
> So I have tried to compile my program with the line:
> 
> gcc -Wall -O3 *.c
> 

Auto import doesn't remove the need to list the library. libm works because it's part of libcygwin which is listed in the cygwin gcc specs file. Try gcc -Wall -O3 *c -ltiff

Rob

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