Linking is the process of bringing in the necessary libraries that
are used in your code. One common problem is that the order of linking
in multiple libraries can matter. I suspect that the linking should
be ordered from the libraries that rely on other libraries to those
that don't. For example, atlas is a library relied on by others in
the following syntax but GMRFLib is not.
gcc file.c -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib64
-lg2c -lGMRFLib -llapack -lgsl -lf77blas -lcblas -latlas -lz
Note that the executable ld does the linking; the compiler calls ld automatically.
Last modified 12/28/07.