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From: "Wolfgang Schlegel" <wolfgang DOT schlegel AT arcor DOT de>
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Subject: GCC Lib Search Path
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:31:00 +0100
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     Hi newsgroup,

a problem I can't solve deals with gcc's lib search path. I try the command
line

     gcc test.cpp -o test.exe libm.a

and get

    gcc.exe: libm.a: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

The lib exists in c:\djgpp\lib, and if I explicitly type

    gcc test.cpp  -o test.exe c:\djgpp\lib\libm.a

it works fine. Options -l and -L don't yield any result too. From the FAQ I
believe to know gcc.exe uses an environment variable called LIBRARY_PATH. I
set this to the appropiate directory, but gcc didn't  find it's libs. I read
about the syntax for djgpp.env, had a look on this file, was surprised to
see all directory names there seem to be converted to UNIX ( \ to / ), tried
to avoid this conversion, and gcc.exe again didn't find it's libs. For the
moment I'm out of ideas. Thank you for aid,

    Wolfgang