On 6 Jun 2011, at 23:10, David Mathog wrote:
>
>> Try to build my application (variations of the following work fine on
>> linux and solaris, albeit dynamic linking in both of those cases):
>> $ gcc -Wall -std=c99 -pedantic -lm -O3 -DMAXINFILE=20 \
>> -lpcre -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib \
>> -static -DPCRE_STATIC -o extract extract.c
-l and -L are positional qualifiers.
If you are trying to use a library in a particular directory, then
the -Ldirectory must go before the -llibrary - and normally both of the
link flags would go towards the end of the command although I suspect
that part is just convention
> The preceding doesn't work, but this one does:
>
> gcc -Wall -std=c99 -pedantic -lm -O3 -DMAXINFILE=20 \
> -I/usr/local/include -static -DPCRE_STATIC \
> -o extract extract.c /usr/local/lib/libpcre.a
>
> I would have thought the two forms were equivalent, but apparently not.
I would suspect that this would also work:-
gcc -Wall -std=c99 -pedantic -lm -O3 -DMAXINFILE=20 \
-I/usr/local/include -static -DPCRE_STATIC \
-o extract -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre extract.c
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