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Re: Linker Search Directories
John Emmas wrote:
> I'm about to build another library called "liblo". This library uses
> various functions with names like getaddrinfo(), freeaddrinfo() etc
> (all of which are declared in /usr/include/gettaddrinfo.h). On my
> Linux box, these functions reside in 'libc.a' - but in Cygwin, they're
> in a different library, called 'libgetaddrinfo.a'. Once again, this isn't
> currently know to liblo's build scripts.
Uh, what? getaddrinfo() is implemented in Cygwin itself, which is the
equivalent of -lc and is implicitly included in every link, so you
should need no such external library at all.
> The library is in a standard directory, so to include it, do I simply type:-
>
> ./configure LDFLAGS="-lgetaddrinfo"
The proper variable for -l flags is LIBS not LDFLAGS.
Brian
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