Re: [Mingw-users] different ways of linking

[Tor L. <tm...@ik...>]

> suppose I've got a static library file named libMylib.a, what's the
> difference between the two following commands?
> g++ -o libMylib.a
> g++ -lMylib

Neither of those commands make any sense as written. Did you leave out
a lot of the command lines?

g++ -o libMylib.a doesn't make sense even as just a the initial part
of the command, because after the -o option should follow the name of
the output file, which will be either an executable (which for Windows
can also mean a DLL) or an object file, never an archive.

Assuming you actually also specify one or several source and/or object
files, g++ -o libMylib.a would create an executable called libMylib.a
which is as such legal, but extremely confusing and certainly not what
you want.

--tml