[news.eclipse.tools.cdt] Re: Linker cannot find lib file

[Derek <subs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/08/2009 21:00, Jan Millar wrote:
> Oops... didnt remove the 'lib' at the front. It now links.
>
> What an odd way to do things. Never had a linker do that before in my 30
> years of programming. I would at least expect it to try exactly what you
> told it - and what if I have both a .o and a .so in the path???
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Jan
btw: as you are specifying a libray (-l) it will ONLY look for 
lib(library).a or lib(library).so

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Derek