[Mingw-users] Can't use external Libs?

[Depo C. <dep...@gm...>]

See screen shot.  Files are there, but can't find any of them.  Out of 
frustration I just put them in the MinGW\lib path; but it still can't 
find them!
I'm really sore about this, files obviously exist and have read/write 
perms to them.  I tried from command line also without luck.

http://i.imgur.com/bPvG4.png

     * OS: Windows 7 Pro X64
     * IDE: Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers
     * Compiler: MinGW (lastest, 4.5.2)

Compiling HelloWorld.c works; but when I try to add some external 
libraries it chokes.

The libraries I have are said to be compatible with win32/mingw. They 
also have a different download for MSVC which does work.

Frustrating. The ld.exe gives the full path and obviously there and I 
have permissions to read/write them. I also included them without path 
(they are in library path and path).

I don't understand why this isn't working.

c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: 
cannot find -l
C:\rhino\data\lib\glfw.dll 
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: 
cannot find -l
C:\rhino\data\lib\libglfwdll.a 
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: 
cannot find -lC:\rhino\data\lib\libglfw.a

C:\Users\rhino>dir C:\rhino\data\lib\libglfw.a
04/15/2011  05:24 PM            70,384 libglfw.a