I'm writing an module with XS. On the last step of linking every thing together, the linker failed: 
cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector -o blib/arch/auto/GenoEy
+e/GenoEye.so buildtmp/GenoEye.o -lcairo  
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcairo  
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

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But the cairo library is out there. I manually run the link command, it runs successful. 
$ cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector -o blib/arch/auto/Geno
+Eye/GenoEye.so buildtmp/GenoEye.o -lcairo
$ ls blib/arch/auto/GenoEye/
GenoEye.bs  GenoEye.so

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Why it failed in perl build script? I use Module::Build::WithXSpp and a Build.PL.

In reply to Failed to link while building XS code by llancet

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