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KK:
Hi.
I found Code::Blocks yesterday and have been playing around with it for some hours now. I compiled some of my old Dev-C++-projects and they all worked, but now I tried to compile a new one and I get errors. I need to link some static libraries (libopengl32.a, libglu32.a and 3 others), and I enter them as -l<name> in my project's linker options. The code compiles, but then I get the following error message (I'll post the complete log just in case)

--- Code: ---Project   : cube
Compiler  : GNU GCC Compiler (called directly)
Directory : G:\home\kolja\dev\codeblocks\Cavern\examples\cube\
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Switching to target: Debug
g++.exe    -g   -I"C:\\MinGW\\include"  -I"..\\..\\..\\Cavern" -c "cube.cpp" -o ".objs\\cube.o"
g++.exe   -L"C:\\MinGW\\lib"  -o "cubed.exe"   -L"C:\\MinGW\\lib"  ".objs\\cube.o"     -llibglu32.a -llibglfw.a -llibglf.a -llibopengl32.a -l..\..\..\Cavern\libcavernd.a
C:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -llibglu32.a
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)
0 errors, 0 warnings
--- End code ---


Can anybody help me with this?

Thanks in advance
Kolja

mandrav:
Just remove the "lib" prefix and the ".a" suffix, e.g. change "-llibglu32.a" to "-lglu32" (same for other libs).
If you insist on using the full name, as you do now, you must include the full path to the lib, e.g. "-l../some/where/else/libfoo.a"

HTH,
Yiannis.

KK:
That worked, thanks.
But now I got another problem, I get undefined reference-errors all over the place although I link all the necessary libraries. Only posting one example:

--- Code: ---..\\..\\..\\Cavern/libcavernd.a(CavernApp.o)(.text+0xbbb):G:/home/kolja/dev/codeblocks/Cavern/CavernApp.cpp:260: undefined reference to `glEnable@4'
--- End code ---


It would be great I you could help me figure that one out, too.
Kolja

KK:
Found it out myself: I had put the library linker commands into the project options, it worked when I put them into the target options.
But why is that so? I chose "Append target options to project options", and it seems as if the used linker dirs from the project options are used by the targets, but what happens to the linker commands?

By the way, nice IDE you created. Seems to be way more stable and comfortable than Dev-C++.

Kolja

mandrav:
Linking order is very important. What you did is you changed the libraries linking order without understanding it.
You can leave it in the project's options but you 'll have to re-arrange the libraries in the correct order...

Anyway, I 'm glad it works for you now :)

Yiannis.

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