Jam: Linking with System Libraries

4 Jul 2004 07:00 jam

Obviously, your code doesn’t just link with your libraries. It also has to link with some of the system libraries. Jam manages this by using the LINKLIBS variable. The simplest way to make this work is something like the following:

    LINKLIBS on emplode.exe += ws2_32.lib ;

Here you can see that we’re telling jam to pass ws2_32.lib on to the linker when it tries to link emplode.exe.

There are two problems with this approach:

It’s a bit Windows-specific.
The Jamfile needs to know that the target is called emplode.exe. It hasn’t yet had to know.