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When a unix/linux program requires "stuff", I usually put (or dpkg puts for me) libraries and headers in /usr/lib and /usr/include, respectively.
I recently downloaded a library that I wish to use on windows, after recently doing so on my linux machine, that provides a download for a prebuilt windows binary. Of course, this comes with a .dll, a .lib, and a .h file that belong to the library.
My question is, is there any paradigm or pattern as to where I can put these files so that I can make use of them from several different programs/source files? The README supplied with the library made no mention of this, so forgive my ignorance coming from unix. Also, I'm using the command line/gcc toolchain, not VC.
Thank you for this answer; I was thinking of creating a program files folder, but wondered how the library would find the dll. regsvr32 should do that then. Ew the windows environment is so weird =/ – cemulate – 2011-06-16T03:59:00.130
Windows is weird, but there are analogs. The registry is like /etc and /dev, \Windows is like /sbin, \users is like /home. – Bacon Bits – 2011-06-16T04:02:04.437