Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW unable to build gVIM withlatest ActiveStateperl58.dll

[Brian D. <br...@de...>]

Suresh Govindachar wrote:

>   A) Added -lperl58 and got the same error about undefined reference

That this did not give a "cannot find" error means that the linker was
able to successfully find and read the perl library, thus adding
-Lc:\opt\perl\lib is unnecessary (but probably harmless.)

>   B) Added -Lc:\opt\perl\lib -lperl58 and got the same error about undefined reference

Like I said, this is usually caused by incorrect ordering of arguments. 
Please post the exact command.

>   C) Why do things work when c: is replaced by x:?

Adding an invalid path to the list of locations to search is not an
error, but it is a no-op.  -L alone does not tell the linker to
necessarily do anything, just adds another location to search for libfoo
when you later specify -lfoo.

>   D) Just to make sure, I added -lblah and got the new error message:
> 
>           c:\opt\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -lblah

Naturually.

Brian