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"jade" <jade AT cdict DOT umcc DOT cu> wrote in news:001701c1b0cc$f62c9b60
$6e0510ac AT et30:

> This line
> gcc -l libsocket.a connect.c
> gives me this message
> c:/djgpp/bin/ld.exe cannot find -llibsocket.a
> Why?

first, if you want to link to with a library liblibrary.a using the -l 
option, you should use:

gcc -llibrary ...

which, in your case, becomes gcc -lsocket

Now, of course, you actually do have a library called libsocket.a in your 
library path, right?

Sinan.