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From: "David Moy" <dmoy102 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Library error using -lsocket and -lnsl
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:17:35 -0500
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I'm trying to compile a C file but I get an error when using options 
-lsocket and -lnsl. How do I fix this?

$ gcc client.c -o client -lnsl -lsocket
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
cannot
find -lnsl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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