I am trying to include the path to extra libraries in my makefile, but I can't figure out how to get the compiler to use that path. so far I have:
g++ -g -Wall testing.cpp fileparameters.cpp main.cpp -o test
and I want to include the path to
/data[...]/lib
because testing.cpp includes files from that library. Also, I'm on a linux machine.
EDIT: Not a path to a library. Just to files that were included. My bad.
To specify a directory to search for (binary) libraries, you just use -L:
-L/data[...]/lib
To specify the actual library name, you use -l:
-lfoo # (links libfoo.a or libfoo.so)
To specify a directory to search for include files (different from libraries!) you use -I:
-I/data[...]/lib
So I think what you want is something like
g++ -g -Wall -I/data[...]/lib testing.cpp fileparameters.cpp main.cpp -o test
These compiler flags (amongst others) can also be found at the GNU GCC Command Options manual:
In your MakeFile or CMakeLists.txt you can set CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS as below:
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -I/path/to/your/folder")
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