Question

I followed this tutorial for installing sfml 2.0 and I am having issues compiling, I have tried many variations of the scripts below. I am using the code in this tutorial.

this is what I tried doing

g++ main.o -o -I/home/hassan/Development/sfml –this compiles

however

g++ main.o -o -L/home/hassan/Development/sfml/lib -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-window -lsfml-system

does not

“/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file -L/home/hassan/Development/sfml/: No such file or directory”

thank you

Answer 1

From “man g++”:

   -o file
      Place output in file file.  This applies regardless to whatever
      sort of output is being produced, whether it be an executable file,
      an object file, an assembler file or preprocessed C code. (...)

The -o option of g++ expects an output file as parameter. So in the line

g++ main.o -o -L/home/hassan/Development/sfml/lib -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-window -lsfml-system

you are telling to put the executable into the file “-L/home/hassan/Development/sfml/lib”, which does not really make sense.
Try

g++ main.o -o sfml-app -L/home/hassan/Development/sfml/lib -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-window -lsfml-system