Makefiles on windows with g++, linking a library

Question

I've gotten fed up with MSVC++6 and how everyone is always telling me that it's a crappy compiler and such.

So now I've decided to try to use vim plus g++ and makefiles. Here's my problem; I have the following makefile:

# This is supposed to be a comment..
CC = g++
# The line above sets the compiler in use..
# The next line sets the compilation flags
CFLAGS=-c -Wall

all: main.exe

main.exe: main.o Accel.o
    $(CC) -o main.exe main.o Accel.o 

main.o: main.cpp Accel.h
    $(CC) $(CFLAGS) main.cpp

Accel.o: Accel.cpp Accel.h
    $(CC) $(CFLAGS) Accel.cpp

clean:
    del main.exe *.o

This gives an error when trying to make, because I need to link to a windows library called Ws2_32.lib, which is needed by Winsock2.h, which I include in one of my .h files.

So how do I do this? I've tried the -l option, but I can't make it work. How does it work with a path that has spaces?

Answer 1

First step: locate the library you are looking for. For me, it's in :

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib

Second step, pass that directory with -L :

LINKFLAGS=-L"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib"

Third step, pass the name of the library with -l (lowercase L):

LINKFLAGS=-L"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib" -lWs2_32

Then use it:

main.exe: main.o Accel.o
   $(CC) $(LINKFLAGS) -o main.exe main.o Accel.o