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[TGB1718]

Hoping for some info on an issue I had on a Raspberry Pi 5, the reason I post here is that I use a Pi

to burn EPROMs for my 8 bits and wrote a program on a Pi 3B.

 

The Pi 5 uses a completely different library to access the GPIO pins, so having to rewrite quite a bits of code

to get the programmer to work on the new Pi.

 

My question is (as there's tons of knowledge here) when I compile I have to include the new gpiod library.

 

so if I use for example cc test.c -llibgpiod.a -o test 

the compile fails as it can't find the library,

however if I use:- cc test.c -l:libgpiod.a -o test

(Note the ':') and this works.

 

I can't find any reference to using a : but it does appear doing it makes the linker look  into

/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ instead of /usr/lib/

 

 

 

Any guru's here that can explain

 

Thanks in advance.

[sanny]

You need to exclude the leading "lib".

 

So to link with libfoo.a use -lfoo

 

 

[TGB1718]

58 minutes ago, sanny said:

You need to exclude the leading "lib".

 

So to link with libfoo.a use -lfoo

Had to remove the .a also, but that works fine, many thanks