Vincenzo Urso Miano <ursomiano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I simply need to link a fortran source to a library: plplot. > This is how i did it. > _____________________________________________ > gcc -o x01f.exe x01f.f \ > "C:\Program Files\plplot\bin\libplplotf77d.dll.a" \ > "C:\Program Files\plplot\bin\libplplotf77cd.dll.a" \ > "C:\Program Files\plplot\bin\libplplotd.dll.a" > ________________________________________________ > > > and here's the result: > _____________________________________________________ > E:\Workspace\temp\plplot>gcc -o x01f.exe x01f.f \ > C:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: \: No such > file: No such file or directory > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status This is the linker saying that it could not find a file named "\". You need to type the whole compilation command on one line, or you need to put it in a file and use @FILE. Ian