Linking: Without Creating Projects

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11-22-2007
teck

Linking: Without Creating Projects

Okay, so, using Dev-C++, I've downloaded a library that I'd like to use (has some functions in it that could make life alot easier).

The problem comes to be that I don't know how to link the library to the code.
I've been looking around at how to do it but all I've gotten is that I need to use a project in order to link (even then, I'm lost as to how they're linking stuff using that). Long and short is that I've found that for what I'm doing, projects are a waste of time and effort as they simply complicate things more than what I currently understand.

So, how do you link a library (in Dev-C++) with your executable without creating a project each and every single time? (I am assuming that there is a way since you don't need to create projects in order to use stdlib.h, cstdlib, etc.)

If this is a totally "noob" question then please bear with me.
11-23-2007
Salem

In the project settings, there is a dialog which allows you to set the names and locations of additional libraries you want to use with your project.
11-23-2007
mikeman118

If you don't know how to do that, you add this to your declarations:

Code:

#pragma comment(lib, "whatever.lib")

Of course, replace whatever with the name of the .lib file, and make sure it's in the same folder.
11-23-2007
matsp

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeman118

If you don't know how to do that, you add this to your declarations:

Code:

#pragma comment(lib, "whatever.lib")

Of course, replace whatever with the name of the .lib file, and make sure it's in the same folder.

That only works in some compilers - in fact, as far as I know, only Microsofts Visual C/C++ supports it.

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Mats
11-23-2007
teck

Code:

#pragma comment(lib, "whatever.lib")

This doesn't seem to work...

Quote:

In the project settings, there is a dialog which allows you to set the names and locations of additional libraries you want to use with your project.

Yes, I've already heard that before. Is there a way though (or an easy way) of connecting the program with the resource without all the overhead of having to create a project and all the settings that projects create.