Question

I’ve gotten fed up with MSVC++6 and how everyone is always telling me that it’s a crappy compiler and such.

So now I’ve decided to try to use vim plus g++ and makefiles. Here’s my problem; I have the following makefile:

# This is supposed to be a comment.. CC = g++ # The line above sets the compiler in use.. # The next line sets the compilation flags CFLAGS=-c -Wall  all: main.exe  main.exe: main.o Accel.o     $(CC) -o main.exe main.o Accel.o   main.o: main.cpp Accel.h     $(CC) $(CFLAGS) main.cpp  Accel.o: Accel.cpp Accel.h     $(CC) $(CFLAGS) Accel.cpp  clean:     del main.exe *.o 

This gives an error when trying to make, because I need to link to a windows library called Ws2_32.lib, which is needed by Winsock2.h, which I include in one of my .h files.

So how do I do this? I’ve tried the -l option, but I can’t make it work. How does it work with a path that has spaces?

Answer 1

First step: locate the library you are looking for. For me, it’s in :

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib 

Second step, pass that directory with -L :

LINKFLAGS=-L'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib' 

Third step, pass the name of the library with -l (lowercase L):

LINKFLAGS=-L'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib' -lWs2_32 

Then use it:

main.exe: main.o Accel.o    $(CC) $(LINKFLAGS) -o main.exe main.o Accel.o