Linker -how it works

[Ty Tower]

Mike Parker Wrote:

> 
> yes, it's a Linux convention. Static libraries (.a) and shared libraries 
> (.so) are interchangeable.

> This is not a DMD issue. It's an aspect of the GCC backend that DMD uses 
> on Linux. You can start here for some info: 
> http://www.lurklurk.org/linkers/linkers.html#linker2.

Got to here so far Mike -thanks
> 
> Look up the GCC manual (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/) for more details.


the "-lm" in the first post ,if this is turned into "libm" them I have no library of that name . Should I have or is this special ?
I found no reference to it on the linker2 page above.