I'm working with Qt and currently I have a problem understanding something about adding external libraries.
What I have now in my .pro file is this:
unix:!macx: LIBS += -L"/home/[RIGHT PATH]" -lOMD
where [RIGHT PATH] is the path to where the library is
if, however I put:
unix:!macx: LIBS += -L"/home/[WRONG PATH, TRASH]" -lOMD
it still works!
if I put:
unix:!macx: LIBS += -L"/home/[RIGHT PATH]"
it doesn't work anymore (compiling errors because it doesn't know some functions that are in the library).
Can someone please explain to me why?
Also, I put these .so files in usr/lib so I shouldn't even have to include them here, right?
Thank you!
-L"PATH" means add PATH the library search
directory list.-lOMD means load library OMD during linking.It seems somehow your library is already in the library search path.
Which means LIBS += -lOMD will also work. Aside from some runtime libraries you have to specify the libraries to load.
edit:
/usr/lib is a default library search path. If you manually copy the library there, it will be found.