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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:46:54 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gcc and Win32 API
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0010190006001.26047-100000@garfield.cs.mun.ca>; from nzanella@cs.mun.ca on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:10:45AM -0230

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:10:45AM -0230, Neil Zanella wrote:
>
>Thanks. The suggested line works...
>
>This is funny though. If I type the exact same command as suggested but
>include the -lgdi32 just after the gcc instead of at the end of the line
>then the complier still returns the undefined reference to
>`GetStockObject AT 4' error. I thought that the order in which the flags were
>entered on the command line did not matter.

File: gcc.info,  Node: Link Options,  Next: Directory Options,  Prev: Assembler Options,  Up: Invoking GCC

Options for Linking
===================

   These options come into play when the compiler links object files
into an executable output file.  They are meaningless if the compiler is
not doing a link step.


`-lLIBRARY'
     Search the library named LIBRARY when linking.

     It makes a difference where in the command you write this option;
     the linker searches processes libraries and object files in the
     order they are specified.  Thus, `foo.o -lz bar.o' searches
     library `z' after file `foo.o' but before `bar.o'.  If `bar.o'
     refers to functions in `z', those functions may not be loaded.

     The linker searches a standard list of directories for the library,
     which is actually a file named `libLIBRARY.a'.  The linker then
     uses this file as if it had been specified precisely by name.

cgf

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