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Cordelle An'tonie
Cordelle An'tonie

Reputation: 23

How to determine correct linker order for a c++ project in cdt eclipse?

I dont want to randomly place libraries in arbitrary order hoping I get the order correct. Is there a systematic way to determine the linker library order in eclipse cdt?

ERROR: cannot find -l{some project}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 306

Answers (2)

Violet Giraffe
Violet Giraffe

Reputation: 33589

You are correct saying that -l directives must follow a certain order. However, this error means a different thing. The linker simply failed to find the library file you have specified. Perhaps, you're missing the -L directive which specifies the folder where the linker looks for the library files. E. g.

-L../bin -l{libname}

Upvotes: 1

Elvis Teixeira
Elvis Teixeira

Reputation: 614

Ok as long as you got "can not find -lsomething. You should put libsomething.so (or.dll or .a etc, the library) in a directory of your choice and the tell the compiler to look at this directory with compiler flag

  -L/path/to/libsomething

Note that the -L flag tell the compiler where to look for libraries and the -l (lowercase) tell it to actaly link the library, so you must provide a path to the former and a library name to the later.

Upvotes: 0

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