I use the -lmysqlclient command line argument to gcc
under Linux. It compiles fine and everything works
great.
However, if I move the compiled binary to another
system, which doesn't have the mysql client libs
installed, when I try to start the program, I get:
error while loading shared libraries:
libmysqlclient.so.10: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory
Now after reading the gcc man page, it says the -l
option wraps 'lib' and '.a' around whats specified,
thus looking for the library libmysqlclient.a, which
is a static library, no? So how come its still
looking for a shared, .so library?
Also, when looking in the mysql/lib directory, I see a
libmysqlclient.la file. What uses this?
If someone could explain to me why this behavior is
happending, and maybe a little linking/shared/static
background, since I am confused now (thinking that .a
libs always are statically linked automatically). I
understand I could use -static, but since -l uses a .a
lib filename, I thought this would be implied.
Thank you very much,
Hans
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