daino 2 Light Poster

Hi

This is a very conceptual question. I sometimes notice that there are settings or library references I need to make in the linker section of my IDE which is Code::Blocks in this case.

I sometimes have to refer to the library file. Lets say, just conceptually, we call it library.a .

My question is that if this is a library file, sometimes I have to also reference what some people call the library which may look like, for example, lib32 . Just wondering what something like that is. Is lib32 a library inside library.a , like a subset of many libraries in library.a or is it a linker setting?

Please let me know if my question is not clear.

Thanks