linker query

[Neil Vice]

"Ty Tower" <tytower at hotmail.com.au> wrote in message 
news:fp7l1j$1j19$1 at digitalmars.com...
>I notice my libraries are called
> libphobos.a
> libtango-base-dmd.a
> libtangobos.a
> etc
>
> So when I compile a program with dmd the command put out is so
> dmd MyStuff/main.d
> gcc main.o -o 
> main -m32 -Xlinker -L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread 
>  -lm
>
>
> so with the "-l" switch above  , does that get converted internally  to 
> the prefix "lib"  ?

Yes this is exactly what happens.

Under linux (and possibly others) libxxx.a is the standard naming convention 
for the file containing a static library named xxx. As such, only the 'name' 
of the library is required by GCC and it is expanded to the filename 
internally as you say.