Vince Rice wrote: > OS X 10.5.6, Macports 1.7, gcc 4.0.1 from Xcode 3.1.2 > > The FAQ address why Macports installs its own libraries, etc. I have the > opposite question, and I read the FAQ and tried searching a couple of months > of maillist archives and couldn't find it. My apologies if I missed it. > > I have a program I want to compile that needs popt. I've downloaded the > Macports popt package, and now have the popt.h in /opt/local/include, the > library in /opt/local/lib, etc. > > My question is what I have to do to my gcc setup to get it to "see" the > Macport installed libraries (not just popt, but any other libraries I might > download). I've tried adding the -I and -L's to the gcc command, and the > popt.h is found, but it complains about the library, e.g. > ld: library not found for -l/opt/local/lib/popt > > I see that /opt/local/lib has libpopt.a, libpopt.la, and libpopt.0.0.0.dylib, > which is similar to the other libraries. I didn't think I needed to specify > "-L libpopt", but that gcc automatically added the lib prefix to the library. > But, just in case, I tried adding it myself, but that didn't work, either. > > An example command line of something I'm trying to compile: > gcc -g -O2 -o src/ascii/ascii src/ascii/ascii.o -l/opt/local/lib/libpopt > > Please don't point out that there's a version of ascii in Macport -- I know > that, I'm just using this as an example of trying to get a Macport library > working in general gcc. :) > > Thanks very much for your help.
Looks like you're mixing up -l and -L. The former is used like '-lpopt', the latter like '-L/opt/local/lib'. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
