usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l

Question

I\'m trying to compile my program and it returns this error :

usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l

in my makefile I use the c

Answer 1

Here is Ubuntu information of my laptop.

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release:    18.04
Codename:   bionic

I use locate to find the .so files for boost_filesystem and boost_system

locate libboost_filesystem
locate libboost_system

Then link .so files to /usr/lib and rename to .so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.65.1 /usr/lib/libboost_filesystem.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.65.1 /usr/lib/libboost_system.so

Done! R package velocyto.R was successfully installed!