On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > >how to search and get relevant documentation for using certain functions > > Stroustrup's C++ Programming Language (3rd ed or Special ed). > > Cline, Lomow, Girou's C++ FAQs (2nd ed). http://www.cplusplus.com http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/ //although the STL documented is a little older than the ANSI/ISO C++ //standard /*MSDN also has some instructive pedagogical examples*/ > >I'm unclear as to when I would need to use the L option to specify libraries > on the command line. > > The -L option is used to specify the path which libraries are located. For instance, if you had some libraries at ~jolic/3party/hotdog you could specify -L~jolic/3party/hotdog and GCC would use that path location to resolve the -lhotdog library. > > Without the -L~jolic/3party/hotdog, GCC wouldn't know to check in that location for libhotdog.so or libhotdog.a. > > >Do you know of any tutorials on the internet that would cover these kinds of fundamentals. > > <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/> Justin
