I’m trying to compile a program in C on a Windows 7 machine using MinGW. Now I have to admit I don’t have a lot of C experience to begin with and this is compounded by not being a very adept Windows user.
The program came with a make file, but it is getting stuck because I get the error:
cannot find -lsndfile
I found that sndfile is a sound library for reading .wav files and the like. I downloaded the library from http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile and ran the setup executable it comes with. This put some header files and other junk in the Programs folder on C drive.
I copied the header files into the include folder under the MinGW directory, which reduced a lot of earlier errors down to one you see above. I think I need to put a .dll file somewhere, but not sure where.
I can provide more detail if needed, since I’m not quite sure where the problem lies.
Thanks for the help.
You have to put the linkable library files (either .a, .lib or .dll) along with the other ones (which come by default with MinGW).