ID Number: Q66699
5.01.21 5.03 5.05 5.10 5.11 5.13 | 5.01.21 5.03 5.05 5.10 5.11 5.13
MS-DOS | OS/2
Summary:
A library name can be embedded into an object module (.OBJ) for LINK
to use when searching to resolve external references. This library
name can either be the library name itself or the full path to the
library. In the case of a full path to the library, LINK does not use
the drive specifier.
More Information:
If a drive specifier is present in a library name embedded in an .OBJ,
it is intentionally ignored by the linker. This is done to provide
compatibility with older compilers that automatically attached the
drive letter to all library records. Therefore, if a library is not
located on the default drive, LINK will prompt for its location.
For example, with Microsoft C, the #pragma comment command is used to
specify the library. If the following line is used
#pragma comment (lib, "E:\C600\LIB\GRAPHICS.LIB")
the compiler will add a COMENT record to the .OBJ instructing LINK to
search the C600\LIB subdirectory for the library GRAPHICS.LIB. If the
current default drive happens to be drive C, then LINK will search
drive C for the C600\LIB directory. When the library and/or path is
not found, it will prompt for the path to the library.