Re: [Dev-C++] adding options to linker

[Daniel K. O. <dan...@ya...>]

Noorez Kassam wrote:

> In the libraries directory i gave the compiler the location of library 
> files that i made. Then in the option to add linker parameters i 
> simply put the name of the library file but the linker complains that 
> it couldn't find the file. If i give the full path in the linker 
> parameters it finds it, but since i told the compiler where to find 
> the libraries, why can't I just give the name of the library as a 
> parameter?


If a library is in the library path and have the name

libfoo.a

then you can pass it to the linker as

-lfoo

Or else you'll need to pass the complete file name and location to the 
linker.

Daniel K. O.