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Asked: 2026-05-31T16:24:54+00:00

In the process of porting a C project from Linux to Windows Have installed

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In the process of porting a C project from Linux to Windows

Have installed MinGW

Have compiled my shared library using a Makefile

This produces libExample.so

Now I’m trying to link this shared library to a test harness so I can see if everything is working as expected

In the harness Makefile I specify the location of the library, e.g. -LE:/libExample_dir and the name of the library -lExample

but its complaining it cannot find the library, i.e. linker is failing with cannot find -lExample – is there some difference with windows regarding .so and .dll or perhaps pathnames that I am missing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using MinGw to compile C code to produce a shared library, remember to rename the output from libExample.so to libExample.dll otherwise the linker will fail to find your library

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