From: hesslinm AT pigeon DOT qut DOT edu DOT au (hessling mark )
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Subject: Re: PDCurses problem.
Date: 14 Feb 1997 09:58:07 GMT
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Gregary J Boyles (boylesgj AT lion DOT cs DOT latrobe DOT edu DOT au) wrote:
: Using PDCurses22 under djgpp 2.1.
:  
: Problem is gcc won't find the library libcurs.a despite the fact that it
: is in the main lib directory (and curses.h in the main include directory).
: It make no difference if I include the path to the library file in the -l
: option.

: gcc -otest.exe test.c -llibcurs
: d:/djgpp/bin\ld.exe: cannot open -llibcurs.a: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

: So I tried the following but it still doesn't work. This was after I
: invoked make with the makefile in the curses src directory and then copied
: the resulting library to the main lib directory.
: ld test.o -llibcurs.a
: D:\DJGPP\BIN/ld.exe: cannot open -llibcurs.a: File in wrong format

: What is causing these problems?

DJGPP's linker works like most Unix linkers; they assume that libraries
start wil "lib".  Simply drop the "lib" prefix; ie -lcurs and things
should work fine.

(I hope I've got this right, I've been using EMX recently, and it doesn't
behave this way! )

Cheers, Mark
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