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From: perlspinr AT att DOT net
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Subject: Cygwin ld is messing with me?
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 20:37:26 +0000
Message-Id: <20020528203729.GJBL5116.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net>

Hello,

I won't forbear to mention that I thought about emailing 
Chuck Wilson privately about this because I know (from 
another List recently) that he knows a lot about how ld 
finds / resolves library searches when linking. But I 
feel that wouldn't be fair to Chuck, so even if it's 
going to result in typical cygwin list flames, here 
goes. In public.

I have written a makefile to build GD-2.0.1 on cygwin 
and it's working nicely for me

http://home.att.net/~perlspinr/makefiles/makefileworkshop
.html

-- in a few hours that url will show a link to the 
makefile --

but for one point; once the libGD DLL is built and 
installed in it's final desired location on the system, 
ld cannot find it when it goes to build (final linking 
to create .exes) the applications that Tom Boutell 
includes in GD.

My makefile causes the DLL to be named {cyggd.dll.a} 
which AFAIU is the "right" way, the Cygwin-packagers 
standard way, to name a lib that depends on the 
Cygwin1.dll rt (as opposed to -mno-cygwin stuff).

The lib gets put into /usr/local/lib and of course the 
DLL itself goes into /usr/local/bin (BOY I sure hope 
nobody reading this needs to ask why or challenge it ... 
that would be very OTPF [Off The Purpose For] this 
thread). But ld (as run by master gcc) reports it cannot 
find "-lgd" and dies.

Any ideas, explanations?

   TIA,
    Soren Andersen (perlspinr)

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