shared libraries

[slanning at buphy.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Ron Peterson wrote:
>Stupid question:  Why does the linker find -lm but not, say, -lqt
>without -L/usr/local/qt/lib?  I.E. - where are the default locations
>specified?  I always just hack in -L/something/something as needed until
>things compile.

man gcc
Read till your eyes pop out. Rinse. Repeat.

(<mumble>environment variables, invoking gcc, link options</mumble>)

>Wouldn't hurt to actually know what I'm doing...

Occasionally comes in handy, as well.

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