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[D Haley]

Hello,

This might be a stupid question, but I have been looking around the docs for a 
while, and no success.

I have got autotools working for my project under windows and mac, no problem; 
however I am trying to use it under Msys on windows.

I have a problem where the following command wont work:

g++ -g -lfoo -lbar  -o myfoo.exe myfoo.o

this fails with undefined references; however

g++ -g myfoo.o -lfoo -lbar  -o myfoo.exe 

works just fine.

My "solution" is currently to edit the Makefile after ./configure; I modify 
myfoo_LINK = $(CXXLD) $(myfoo_CXXFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) \
        $(quick3D_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@
to 
myfoo_LINK = $(CXXLD) $(myfoo_OBJECTS) $(myfoo_CXXFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) \
        $(quick3D_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@

and modify 

myfoo$(EXEEXT): $(myfoo_OBJECTS) $(myfoo_DEPENDENCIES) 
        @rm -f myfoo$(EXEEXT)
        $(myfoo_LINK) $(myfoo_OBJECTS) $(myfoo_LDADD) $(LIBS)
to

myfoo$(EXEEXT): $(myfoo_OBJECTS) $(myfoo_DEPENDENCIES) 
        @rm -f myfoo$(EXEEXT)
        $(myfoo_LINK)  $(myfoo_LDADD) $(LIBS)


However, I would like this to work straight away, and so any help that anyone 
can provide would be most valuable!