Matt Kowalczyk wrote: > This forces me to add /usr/lib/libcrypto.so to the gcc command when I link the > object to produce an executable for instance. My gcc command looks something > like below: > > gcc --pedantic -Wall -std=c99 -O2 -g -O2 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so -o main > Main.o > my_md5.o
You really should not specify the full filename/path of the library like that. In addition to the reasons already given by others, not every system uses ".so" as the extension of shared libraries. Some call it .dylib, some .dll, and so on. Some people might want to statically link. Some people might want to link against a copy of the library installed elsewhere. "-lcrypto" handles all of these cases. Brian _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
