Linker error

[technologist]

Cross compiling VS17 and have now hit a snag in linker stage. It compiles but says it can't find the two files/libs below:
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1>Linking objects
1>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lUSB-1.0
1>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lArducamlib

I have directly copied them (libUSB-1.0.a & libArducamlib.a) into /usr/bin/(confirmed) but still get the error. I also have .so forms of the library files as well, but kind of don't know what to do with them.

Please help. Thx in advance

[tpb]

Shouldn't they go in /usr/lib/ ?

[technologist]

Yes, that is my understanding. But I am confused:

for -lUSB-1.0 I have libUSB-1.0.a as the file
for -iArducamlib I have libArducamlib.a as the library file.

When I put them in the usr/lib (sorry abt the /usr/bin ref) it still is looking for Arducamlib instead of libArducamlib.a and looking for USB-1.0 instead of libUSB-1.0.a.

In the Eclipse IDE windows side of things, you would truncate the library name and extension in the name in the Linker Settings so it would appear exactly that way: -lArducamlib -lUSB-1.0 in the compiler command line. I am now working in Visual Studio and I am missing a beat here, it can't be this hard.

I am using Visual Studio 2017 c++ for Linux. I wonder if there is a Linux directories/setting cluster I am missing in VS.