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lets say my lib dir consisted of
libx.a liby.a

can i just say g++ ...-L../lib/libx.a ...-L../lib/liby.a
?

# lets say my lib dir consisted of
# libx.a liby.a

# can i just say g++ ...-L../lib/libx.a ...-L../lib/liby.a

No, but you're close. -L specifies a directory and -l specifies
a library without the lib and .a. So you have the choice among

        g++ ... -L../lib -lx -ly

or

        g++ ... ../lib/libx.a ../lib/liby.a

Note that .a files are recognized as libraries by their suffix.

Regards,

        Jens
--
Jens Schweikhardt  http://www.shuttle.de/schweikh
SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

I have never been able to get the -L option to work with more than 1
directory at a time.  

Quote:

> No, but you're close. -L specifies a directory and -l specifies
> a library without the lib and .a. So you have the choice among

>         g++ ... -L../lib -lx -ly

> or

>         g++ ... ../lib/libx.a ../lib/liby.a

> Note that .a files are recognized as libraries by their suffix.

> Regards,

>         Jens
> --
> Jens Schweikhardt  http://www.shuttle.de/schweikh
> SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

#>
#> # lets say my lib dir consisted of
#> # libx.a liby.a
#>
#> # can i just say g++ ...-L../lib/libx.a ...-L../lib/liby.a

# I have never been able to get the -L option to work with more than 1
# directory at a time.  

Then your implementation is broken (if it's not a "pilot error" :-)
POSIX (aka ISO 9945-2) requires that the C compilation system
understand at least 10 (ten) -L operands simultaneously.
Or it does not claim POSIX conformance, which is hopefully rare these days.

#> No, but you're close. -L specifies a directory and -l specifies
#> a library without the lib and .a. So you have the choice among
#>
#>         g++ ... -L../lib -lx -ly
#>
#> or
#>
#>         g++ ... ../lib/libx.a ../lib/liby.a
#>
#> Note that .a files are recognized as libraries by their suffix.
#>
#> Regards,
#>
#>         Jens

Regards,

        Jens
--
Jens Schweikhardt  http://www.shuttle.de/schweikh
SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

He's just doing it wrong.  -L specifies a directory to find libs in,
-l specifies the lib name (ie. -lx would load libx.a found in a
directory specified by -L)  

Or, just shortcut all that and simply remove the -L, so that
you're directly specifying the object code to be rolled into your
executible (ie.  gcc /path1/libx.a /path2/important.o -o myprogram)