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May 11th, 2009

Linker question

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I am writing an app right now that needs winmm.lib. I tried typing winmm.lib in the project properties under the correct section, but kept saying that does not exist. So i did a little research and found that if i type -lwinmm it works. I am using dev-c++. Can anyone tell me why this is and how the syntax worked? Thanks

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May 12th, 2009

Re: Linker question

Unix compilers by tradition omitted the library suffix when passing library names to the linker.

Dev-C++ uses the GNU C compiler, which inherits that tradition.

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Re: Linker question

Standard unix style static library syntax is:

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libName.lib

And you specify this to the GNU linker (used by dev-c++) using the -l option by name only:

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-lName

The linker will then resolve this to the filename of the library.

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May 14th, 2009

Re: Linker question

Thanks

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