Re: [Boost-users] Specifying library locations for g++

From: Scott Meyers (usenet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-30 13:42:23

David Daeschler wrote:
> After following this thread lower down, I think that you're confusing -l
> (lower case l) and -L (capital L).  Lower case -l specifies the
> individual library you are linking to (ex boost_filesystem).  Capital -L
> specifies a directory or directories (you can use -L and -l as many
> times as you have to) where the linker should look for the libraries
> specified by the lower case -l's

No, this fails, too:

D:\Temp>g++ -Wall -O3 -ID:\C++\Boost\Current -o boostbuildtest.exe 
boostbuildtest.cpp -Lc:\boost_current\lib -lboost_regex -lboost_f
ilesystem
d:\apps\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.1.1\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: 
cannot find -lboost_regex
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I've also tried variations making sure that the case of the paths in the command 
line matches what Windows shows (because, in the past, I've had trouble with Gnu 
tools treating paths case-sensitively on Windows).  Still no luck.

Other suggestions?

Scott