[Qt-interest] Re : silly library question

[Mic J]

I had some unrecognized libraries until i added a space between the -L
and the path.
When using some external libraries. you could try that.


On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:22 AM, King Peter <kingpeter2009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> LIBS += -L"C:\\curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32\\lib" -lcurl
> －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－
> maybe
> LIBS += -L"C:\\curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32\\lib\\debug" -lcurl
> or
> LIBS += -L"C:\\curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32\\lib\release" -lcurl
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:44, d3fault <d3faultdotxbe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried adding "C:\Qt\2010.05\mingw\bin" to my system PATH variable, but I
>> still get the same error when trying to compile.
>>
>> On 5/5/2011 7:08 PM, Gopalakrishna Bhat wrote:
>>
>> Is the PATH for mingw added to the environment?
>> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Vsexpressvc/thread/325b5459-c469-40d0-bf6d-e3356a2f14cd/
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:46 PM, d3fault <d3faultdotxbe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> eh i tried doing:
>>> LIBS += "C:/curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32/lib/libcurl.a"
>>> and even:
>>> LIBS += "C:/curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32/lib/libcurldll.a"
>>> (there is no .lib file in /lib/)
>>>
>>> but neither work.
>>>
>>> i changed my double forwardslashes to backslashes as well... but it
>>> doesn't make any difference.
>>>
>>> Oddly enough, doing:
>>> LIBS += "C:/curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32/bin/libcurl.dll"
>>>
>>> lets it compile, but then it crashes when I try to run it with error:
>>> "During startup program exited with code 0x0000135."
>>>
>>> I'm glad none of you have the answer. Makes me feel less stupid.
>>>
>>> .... but seriously... this is such a basic task..... why is including an
>>> external library so damn hard? I've used libcurl in C# and it wasn't nearly
>>> as difficult.
>>>
>>> And to those of you trying to get me to invoke qmake manually: fuck that.
>>> It's a bug in qt creator if you have to invoke the command line to include
>>> an external library.
>>>
>>> On 5/5/2011 8:23 AM, BOUCARD Olivier wrote:
>>>
>>> AFAIK, he uses QtCreator, so it is MinGW.
>>> The .lib its for Visual.
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> De : R. Reucher <rene.reucher at batcom-it.net>
>>> À : qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
>>> Envoyé le : Jeudi 5 Mai 2011 16h47
>>> Objet : Re : [Qt-interest] silly library question
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I've had similar issues with one of my projects, with also need to link
>>> to
>>> SDL and ZLIB...
>>>
>>> I finally figured that you need to specify the .lib file, not just the
>>> directory where the .lib and .dll files reside! Example:
>>>
>>> LIBS += C:\curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32\lib\curl.lib
>>>
>>> I don't know if forward or backward slashes make a difference here, I've
>>> use
>>> back-slashes... also, I use a script to produce the .vcxproj file for VS
>>> 2010 and specify the "LIBS += ..." statement on the qmake command line,
>>> not
>>> in the .pro file, but I don't think it matters.
>>>
>>> HTH, René
>>> --
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>>>
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