Re: [Mingw-users] HELP NEEDED : link problem

[Stephen M. W. <ste...@cr...>]

On July 26, 2002 04:55 am, Eric Chastan wrote:
>
> Now I manage to compile my file but I have a problem when liking,
> apparently ld can't find any library I give it:
>
> For example I copied the libcrypt32.a from <migwdir>/lib to my
> directory and tried to compile (I'm using cygwin) :
>
> $ ls *.c *.o *.a
> ls: *.o: No such file or directory
> test.c  libcrypt32.a
> $ g++ -oaddcert.o -c -Wno-deprecated addcert.c
> $ ls *.c *.o *.a
> test.c  test.o libcrypt32.a
> $ g++ -otest.exe -Wno-deprecated -L. -l./libcrypt32.a test.c
>
> c:\mingw1.1\bin\..\lib\gcc-lib\mingw32\3.1\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld
>.exe: cannot find -l./libcrypt32.a

Try the command line

> $ g++ -o test.exe -Wno-deprecated test.c -lcrypt32 

The compiler front-end will automatically prepend the lib and append 
the .a, and look in all the default directories and directories listed 
in -L directives.  The current working directory, ".", is one of the 
default directories.

-- 
Stephen M. Webb