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From: baren AT ix DOT netcom DOT com (The Great and Powerful Marcus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: dumb newbie question: make and allegro library...
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 21:41:21 GMT
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On Sat, 8 Jun 1996 21:36:55 +0100, Shawn Hargreaves
<slh100 AT york DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:

>References to libraries have to come after the source file they are 
>using. This is because ld is a single-pass linker, so it looks first at 
>the libraries but ignores them because it doesn't have any unresolved 
>symbols. Then it comes to the colors.o file which uses lots of symbols, 
>but by this time it is too late to go back and get them from the library :-)
>
>Try something like:
>
>CFLAGS = -O -Wall etc.
>LIBS = ../lib/liballeg.a -liostream
>
>dots : colors.cpp
>	gcc $(CFLAGS) colors.cpp $(LIBS)
>
Thank you very much, Shawn, that did the trick!

However, having make work has brought up a secondary problem. It is
deleting my source files. Haha, silly me, no back up...


The Great and Powerful Marcus -- baren AT ix DOT netcom DOT com
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