Ok well im not an expert at C++ but...
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i am not to great at C++ as in i just started like around a week ago i think. and i need to make a program that uses a socket library, i dont know how to use the library. i already downloaded it. i put it in my library folder in my compiler's folder. i just don't know if it's like ready to use or what. i havent downloaded a library or anything like that to help with a program before. so can someone help me out real fast? its not extremely urgent but i'd like to accomplish this part of the task
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As Tesiox said... It depends on the library. As you said i put it in my library folder in my compiler's folder, I guess it's a precompiled library.
Tell us the name of it so we can Google for the flag for the compiler. For example it may look like -lSDL. If you're using an IDE that generates makefile automatically, these tags should be typed in somewhere in preferences. -
If it's just a bunch of *.h and *.c/*.cpp files - include them in your project* (to the list of the files in Dev-Cpp project) and code (#include "name_of_header_file"...).
I have used Dev-Cpp as a portable compiler, so I don't know if it checks for header files in it's own folder. But I guess not. At least other APIs require you to include all files in the project settings.
*usually project files are held in one folder.
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