Problem while linking a static library during compilation in MinGW, why?-CodePudding

I am trying to compile a simple project which uses one of my headers. I am on Windows and I am using MinGW-W64-builds-4.3.5 Suppose the project is called test.cpp and I want to compile it using my headerosmanip which requires also the linking of its created static library libosmanip.lib. The static library has been compiled and created in MSYS2 and then copied into Windows filesystem. If I try to compile with:

g   -std=c  17 -losmanip .\test.cpp

To search for the system headers and library path I did:

g   -v test.cpp

and decided to put headers into C:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\i686-w64-mingw32\8.1.0\include\c and the static library into C:\MinGW\lib\gcc\i686-w64-mingw32\8.1.0\.

I got the following error:

C:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.1.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: 
cannot find -losmanip
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I've tried also by adding the -L option, linking the library path, or editing the LIBRARY_PATH variable ( $Env:LIBRARY_PATH =";C:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.1.0/"), but it still doesn't work.

I tried to move the library into the same folder of the test.cpp file and compile, but again the same error occurs.

It's strange because I tried same thing on Ubuntu, MacOS, MSYS2 and Cygwin64 and it works.

Can you help, me please?

CodePudding user response：

I finally solved the issue. The problem was related to the fact the the suffix of my library was .lib. By changing it in .a and rebuilding the library passing the correct static library name to the ar command the problem disappeared.