I am having hard time figuring out how to link WinInet when compiling from bash shell in windows (msys)

'Makefile'

main:
    g   -s -static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc   -lwininet main.cpp -o main

'main.cpp'

#include <Windows.h>
#include <wininet.h>



#define MAX  4096
#pragma comment (lib, "Wininet.lib")

void Request()
{
    HINTERNET hSession = InternetOpen("", INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG, NULL,NULL,0);

}
int main()
{
    Request();
    return 0;
}

The error I got

C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/11.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: C:\msys64\tmp\cc1m5iEc.o:main.cpp:(.text 0xfa6): undefined reference to `__imp_InternetOpenA'

Things I tried :

• looked the path where WinInet.lib was and tried to use it with -L like so g -L"path\\to\\WinInet.lib" main.cpp
• changed #pragma comment (lib, "Wininet.lib") to #pragma comment (lib, "WinInet.lib")
• Tried using -m64
• Tried th -L method without WinInet.lib

How to properly link wininet from bash shell in msys

MSYS download link

CodePudding user response：

The problem is in your make file, you should move -lwininet after main.cpp

g -s main.cpp -static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc -lwininet -Os -o main