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From: Andrew Hakman <hakmana AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Linking in .a files from within RHIDE
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 18:14:14 GMT
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When linking a .a file using RHIDE, if the file has lib???.a, go to
OPTIONS->Libraries, type the name but chop the "lib" and ".a" parts off, then
click the checkbox beside it's name. It should now link in properly.
Example: to include libemu.a   type    emu    and check the box to the left of
it.

Andrew

J-P wrote:

> I am currently using DJGPP v2.something, and am trying to link a .a object
> archive in from the RHIDE development suite.
>
> Linking from the command line works, a bit:
>
> gcc myfile.c ..\lib\libwobble.a -o myfile.exe \\ works
> gcc myfile.c -lwobble -o myfile.exe           \\ doesn't
>
> But I can't seem to get the linking within RHIDE right at all: I put
> ..\lib\libwobble.a as an argument to the compiler, to the linker, as a -l
> argument... I /think/ I've tried every possible option, but I imagine that
> it's just the one I've missed that's the right one :)
>
> Any advice?
>
> thanks,
> J-P
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