Re: [Mingw-users] Can't link in MSYS

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Saturday 14 March 2009 10:08:52 Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> >        g++ `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtkmm-2.4` main.cpp
>
> Try this instead:
>
> g++ `pkg-config --cflags gtkmm-2.4` main.cpp `pkg-config --libs
> gtkmm-2.4`
>
> > pkg-config outputs the proper goods,
>
> Not really. In general one should put libraries after object (or,
> in your simple case, source) files on the command line. That is how
> it has traditionally been since the dawn of time. It's just on
> Linux (and other platforms that use ELF?) that one can put
> libraries before the object files. So unfortunately this
> "pkg-config --cflags --libs" meme is very widespread.

Unfortunate indeed.  Even on Linux, this common misuse is incorrect; 
it is only when the libraries in question are *shared*, that the ELF 
linker will forgive the incorrect ordering; such misuse, in the case 
of *static* libraries, will be punished equally on all platforms.

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Regards,
Keith.