From: "Johan Venter" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <3756E923 DOT 9CCF52D0 AT geocities DOT com> Subject: Re: Linker under Djgpp Lines: 26 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 11:00:47 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.134.161.132 X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 928502483 139.134.161.132 (Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:21:23 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:21:23 EST Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.com) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Timothy Stallmann wrote in message news:3756E923 DOT 9CCF52D0 AT geocities DOT com... > I've been trying to set up the gpc pascal compiler under djgpp, and have > installed all the necesarry djgpp stuff, but whenever I try to use the > linker, the option -l that according to the help for gpc is supposed to > take a library name as the argument gives me an error. When ever I try > for example: > ld test.o -l libgpc.a, > I get an error message "Cannot find file -llibgpc.a, unrecognized file > type" Also, it seems that some of the other switches, like directories > to search, etc, don't work. Has anyone else run into this problem? 1. There should be no space between the -l and the library. 2. Try just -lgpc, because normally the lib is automatically appended. Well, those will only work assuming that ld's parameters work the same way as gcc's. -- Johan Venter ICQ 3643877 Visit "The TPU DJGPP Interest Group": http://surf.to/djgppig