Re: [Mingw-users] ld.exe: cannot find -llibwinmm

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephan Lukits" <st...@lu...>
To: <min...@li...>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:33 PM
Subject: [Mingw-users] ld.exe: cannot find -llibwinmm


> Hi y'all,
> I just startet developing with win32 api and thought it might be a good
> idear useing a mingw system. Now I try to run the second example from
> the Petzold 5th edition which makes use of WinMM.lib.
> Since I didn't find it on my system I where searching for something with
> winmm and found libwinmm.a. My first question is: Is libwinmm.a the
> mingw equivalent for use with gcc?

Yes.

> And second question why can't the linker find it. I added the followning
> system variable:
> LIBRARY_PATH=C:\mingw\lib
> Which should make things working according to a linker introduction I
> found on the web:
> http://webclub.kcom.ne.jp/ma/colinp/win32/tools/link.html

First remove that environment variable, because it is not necessary and
might cause problems in future (BTW I think that website is very old).

>
> I also tried coping libwinmm.a to my source directory an calling gcc
> like this:
>
> gcc -mwindows -ohello hello.o -L. -llibwinmm
>
> which also resulted in a "connot find" error.

Use "-lwinmm", because the "lib" part of the name is implicit. For example,
to use libwsock32.a you pass "-lwsock32" to the linker.

Luke

>
> Thank you for your time
>
> best regards
> Stephan
>
> PS a few outputs:
>
> C:\Programme\eclipse\workspace\HelloWin32>env | grep LIB
> LIBRARY_PATH=C:\mingw\lib
>
> C:\Programme\eclipse\workspace\HelloWin32>gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 (mingw special 20030504-1)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> [...]
>
> C:\Programme\eclipse\workspace\HelloWin32>ls C:\mingw\lib | grep *winmm*
> libwinmm.a