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2.3 Linking against an external library

If the library you want to link against is not a GNUstep library (ie, not managed by the GNUstep make package), for example a C library you get from an external source, you need to tell the GNUstep make package where the library can be found. In this case, your GNUmakefile.preamble would look something like the following:

HelloWorldTest_TOOL_LIBS    += -lNicola
HelloWorldTest_INCLUDE_DIRS += -I/opt/nicola/include/
HelloWorldTest_LIB_DIRS     += -L/opt/nicola/libs/

where I am linking against the library libNicola, which is in the directory /opt/nicola/libs/ and whose headers are in /opt/nicola/include/.