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> How can GCC automatically look for necessary libraries in another
> folder and its subfolders?

The -L option adds one directory to the search path.  There is no
single option to add an entire directory tree.

	gcc *.o -L../foo -lfoo -o my.exe

This only works with libraries specified with "-l" though, which must
be named (for the example above) "libfoo.a".

The usual convention, though, is to use a Makefile and provide the
full path to the library through it, so you just type "make" and all
those really long command lines "just happen" :-)