Linker flags in wrong place

Question

I\'m trying to use Autotools to build my C program that needs to be linked against certain libraries. It only contains one C source file.

This is the Makefile.am ass

Answer 1

You can start by not abusing LDFLAGS for libraries. LDFLAGS is for linker flags. Use foo_LDADD (for executables) or foobar_LIBADD (when producing a library) to list link libraries.

Also, running pkg-config inside Makefile.am is unnecessary and wasteful. Just use:

game_CFLAGS = ${libglfw_CFLAGS}
game_LDADD  = ${libglfw_LIBS}

libglfw_CFLAGS,LIBS is populated by this in configure.ac:

PKG_CHECK_MODULES([libglfw], [libglfw])