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user1496491
user1496491

Reputation: 583

Eclipse doesn't see ".a" libraries

I'm working on Windows and I use MinGW, and I builded all libraries. I added them to all settings.

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I'm fighting this problem for a couple of days, and that is all I've got.

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What should I do to make it work?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 74

Answers (1)

Mike Kinghan
Mike Kinghan

Reputation: 61147

You say that you built the three static libraries in question yourself.

Conventionally the GCC toolchain expects static libraries to have names of the form lib<name>.a.

In order for a static library to be found by the linker as satisfying the option -lfoo, it must be called libfoo.a, not foo.a. If the library is, unusually, called foo.a then for the linker to find it you need to pass it the unusual option -l:foo.a.

So you can either:-

Rename your libraries:

glew32.a -> libglew32.a
glfw3dll.a  -> libglfw3dll.a
SOIL.a ->   libSOIL.a

Or change your Eclipse library (-l) settings: 

glew32 -> :glew32.a
glfw3dll    -> :glfw3dll.a
SOIL -> :SOIL.a

I suggest the first alternative, as there is no reason why you shouldn't follow the usual naming convention for libraries you are building yourself.

Upvotes: 1

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