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Re: a question about -l option
ali hagigat <hagigatali@gmail.com> writes:
> My question is about the link option, -l. Like, -lrt, We know that
> librt.a (or librt.so) is the actual file which is searched for. But i
> had a an experience and i saw that if there is no librt.a, other "rt"
> combinations are searched too, like , librtdm.a.
That is not correct, at least not on GNU/Linux or Unix systems. If you
use -lrt, the linker will search for librt.a and librt.so. It will not
search for librtdm.a.
Ian