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Re: cygwin gcc user library question
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: cygwin gcc user library question
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:21:13 -0400
- References: <3909C5CE.A4755E4A@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 06:09:34PM +0100, eho wrote:
>Hi there! I tried to use cygwin gcc to compile and link a c program
>under NT. The program uses a library that exists in a lib directory with
>a name abc.Lib. But when I specify the GCC command:
>gcc xxxxxx.c -labc -L ./lib, I got the ld error cannot open -labc. What
>should be the proper way to specify my abc library in the gcc command
>under NT? Thanks
Cygwin uses the UNIX convention of naming libraries libabc.a, so you'd
do something like this:
gcc xxxxxx.c -L ./lib -labc
or
gcc xxxxxx.c lib/libabc.a
or
gcc xxxxxx.c lib/abc.lib
cgf
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