From: "Stefan Viljoen" <rylan AT intekom DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Compiling graphics executables, png.h
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:05:52 +0200
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> in the code, the djgpp arguments it lists to compile are:
> gcc *.cpp -s -O2 -o fire.exe -lstdcxx -lpng -lz
>
> First I got an error about not having png.h so I went off and downloaded
> that and loads of other .h files it needed, but even now it fails wit the
> error:
> "c:/djgpp/bin/ld.exe: cannot open -lpng: No such file or directory
<ENOENT>
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status"
>
> Can you help me sort this out, believe me I've tried, and can't. So please
> help!!

Hi Dave,

The problem is that you need another file too - called libpng.a - look for
this file and download it too. Place it in the
djgpp\lib directory and try to compile again. This is a library file in
which the actual code that is referenced by headers in
the png .h reside, and which you MUST have in order to get libpng to work.

Hope this helped!

Stefan


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