[openal] cannot find -lopenal ... cant find .a file

[Kip Carr]

Chris,

Im trying to build a 64 bit app.  Part of the software update I am working on is converting to 64 bit.  My full Link link is huge of course but the openal part is just -lopenal, were you looking for particular flags or something?

Daniel,

I am trying to link it as a static.  I am working on getting an old project back up and running and would like to keep as much the same as the old as possible.  Also I am working with Boost build and BJam so making changes is not the easiest thing either.

-Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Robinson [mailto:chris.kcat at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:11 PM
To: openal mailing list
Subject: Re: [openal] cannot find -lopenal ... cant find .a file

On 06/11/2014 01:23 PM, Kip Carr wrote:
> I am currently trying to link against the latest openal
> (1:1.14-4ubuntu1) in Ubuntu 14.  I did an apt-get install 
> libopenal-dev to get latest.  When I compile I get an error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lopenal
>
> I did a "find . -name "*openal*" in the user folder and this is what I 
> get:
>
> ./share/doc/libopenal-data
> ./share/doc/libopenal-dev
> ./share/doc/libopenal1
> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so
> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/openal.pc
> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1
> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1.14.0

Are you building a 32-bit app or 64-bit? What's the actual link command it's trying to run?

> This worked under Ubuntu 8 (sorry updating ollllld code) but there was 
> an .a file and they were all just located under lib not the new
> x86_64 folder.  Is there a reason the .a file isn't in the latest 
> release or any other reason I would be getting this error?  Ive tried 
> searching around and there isn't anything on this sort of problem.

The .a file is for static linking, which you generally don't want to do with openal. Using -lopenal should find libopenal.so in the compiler's lib directories, though.
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