I’m compiling some code which uses libcurl on a Debian Linux system. My dev machine is running Debian 5 but I want the binary to be usable on older Debian 4 systems too.
I find that if I specify -lcurl it will link to libcurl.so.4 but Debian 4 systems only have libcurl.so.3
Is there some way I can tell GCC to link to either libcurl.so.3 (which exists in both Debian 4 and 5) or just libcurl.so so it will use whatever version is available ?
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Answer
You can pass the actual .so file instead of -l on the linker command line, and it ought to do what you want.