Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:12:35 -0400 To: "Lincoln, W. Terry" Cc: "'Prof.Dr.U.Kaiser@t-online.de'" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Question about gcc Linker Message-ID: <19990825121235.D1508@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Lincoln, W. Terry" , "'Prof.Dr.U.Kaiser@t-online.de'" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Lincoln, W. Terry on Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:26:31AM -0400 On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:26:31AM -0400, Lincoln, W. Terry wrote: >> What additional libraries do i need and how must I adress them in the >> gcc -l option? I always get a 'no such file or directory' message, when >> I try to add a library. > >You can't link libraries or object files from the Micro$oft format with >Cygwin gcc. Addressing libraries that are Cygwin such as libXYZ.a is >done with the switch -LXYZ on the gcc line. That's not entirely true. Many Microsoft libraries work fine. You should be able to just specify them on the command line. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com