On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:50:21PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > I always thought that the libxx.a libraries are needed to compile > programs. However it appears that it is > possible to compile programs without them (I suppose this means .so > version will be used). This I gather from the > response from the debian maintainer of libqt-dev (testing) - libqt-dev > only contains libqt.so and other .so files. > > Can you please let me know what options I am supposed to provide to > the compiler for such binary builds?
Usually you include flags of the type: -lnameoflibrary for example for libSDL you would use -lSDL, for libX11 -lX11, etc. The library's documentation should tell you which flags to use. For certain libraries you can use the pkg-config script to get these flags. For example for linking with gtk you would do: $ pkg-config gtk --libs -rdynamic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm pkg-config can also give you the required include flags: $ pkg-config gtk --cflags -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com
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