From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: PDCurses problem.
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:17:00 -0800
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Gregary J Boyles wrote:
> 
> gcc -otest.exe test.c -llibcurs
> d:/djgpp/bin\ld.exe: cannot open -llibcurs.a: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

You aren't using the '-l' parameter properly.  To link 'libcurs.a', use
'-lcurs'.  This is automatically turned into <lib>curs<.a> by the
linker.  In a similar way, 'libm.a' becomes '-lm', 'liballeg.a' becomes
'-lalleg', etc.  There are certain archaic reasons for this format, but
it does help to preserve standard library naming practices.

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John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I <fighteer AT cs DOT com>

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