How do I link a .DLL into my C program on Win32?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 28, 2001, "Chris Marshall" <ninethirtysix@hotmail.com> wrote:

> $ gcc -I. -l./psmsg.dll hello.c
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> cannot find -l./psmsg.dll

> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Try -lpsmsg.  If this fails, I suppose you may get better help at a
Cygwin-specific mailing list, since DLLs are a MS-Windows thing.

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