linking libraries without name prefix/suffix

linking libraries without name prefix/suffix

[k wayne]

hi,
i hope this is the right mailinglist for this, my apologies this is
not the case :)

however, i need to link (through invokation of g++, if possible) a
library that does not have the "libxxx.a" scheme, so i would like to
make g++ not prefix the library name with "lib" and suffix it with
".a". if i understood the gcc manual correctly, i could specify the
libarary without the "-l" option, but then the library paths (plus
those specified with "-L") would not be searched. unfortunately, i
need these paths to be searched, because i do not know the exact paths
of the libraries since i am trying to write a makefile for
compilation.
by the way, i'm trying hard to avoid external tools such as the
autotools, so i hope there is a way to solve my little problem in
another way :)

thank you in advance

Re: linking libraries without name prefix/suffix

[John Love-Jensen]

Hi k wayne,

> i need to link (through invokation of g++, if possible) a
> library that does not have the "libxxx.a" scheme...

Let's assume the "what should be a library but isn't because it doesn't
follow the naming requirements for being a library (lib prefix and .a
suffix)" is called ImReallyALibraryDammit.

Do this in that directory, say /secret/library/location, which contains
ImReallyALibraryDammit:

ln -s ImReallyALibraryDammit libImReallyALibraryDammit.a

Then the linker will be able to locate the malnamed library.  So this will
now work:

g++ foo.cpp -L/secret/library/location -lImReallyALibraryDammit

HTH,
--Eljay