I'm doing a project for my CS2204 Unix class, and I'm having problems with the -L and -l options that go with gcc. I have this file structure set up in my home directory

p4
libsrc
myutil.c
src
makefile
myshell.c
include
myutil.h

There's a function in myutil.c called encrypt(). I call this function from main() which is in myshell.c. The function's prototype is in myutil.h.

The problem comes when I try to build the program. I cd to ~/p4/src/ and call make. In the makefile, it executes the command

gcc -I ../include -L ../libsrc -l util myshell.c -o myshell

The output I get from the command is this...

/tmp/cceOFU2Y.o(.text+0x18): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `encrypt'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [all] Error 1

I'm positive that it is all syntactically correct. I've tested it in Visual Studios .NET 2003. I don't know why I can't get it to link. Oh, also, before I run make, I cd to ~/p4/libsrc/ and run these two commands

gcc -c myutil.c
ar rv libutil.a myutil.o

in order to build the library. Please help.

I'm not sure which steps you're supposed
to be taking, but the easy way is to first
compile myutils.c into an object file:

gcc myutil.c -c -o myutil.o

And then inlcude it into myshell like
this:

gcc myshell.c myutil.o -o myshell


Cheers,
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