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

[J D. <d3...@gm...>]

Because gcc doesn't want the FULL name it just wants the core name -
it auto adds the lib prefix and .a or .so suffix.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Depo Catcher <dep...@gm...> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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