usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l<nameOfTheLibrary>?

Question

I'm trying to compile my program and it returns this error : usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l<nameOfTheLibrary> in my makefile I use the command `g++` and link to my library which is a symbolic link to my library located on an other directory. Is there an option to add to make it work please?

Answer 1

You need to set an environment variable named LD_LIBRARY_PATH and make it point to the location of the library file(s). In this following example the location is /absolute/path/of/the/library

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/absolute/path/of/the/library