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Subject: Re: installing GeoIP
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On 3/5/2012 10:32, Norman Khine wrote:
> when i run
>
> $ /usr/bin/ld -lGeoIP
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGeoIP
>
> perhaps i have a problem with the settings of my location of the
> headers in my linker path.
>
> how do i verify this?

As has already been explained.  -I/usr/local/include (to find the 
header(s)) and -L/usr/local/lib (to find the library)

cc -I/usr/local/include -o example example.c -L/usr/local/lib -lGeoIP

This is "Compilation of Stuff 101" -- it most likely isn't an issue on 
Linux, since there's a tendency to just stuff everything in 
/usr/include, /usr/lib and friends which will be poked at by the 
compiler by default.

-aDe