title: GCC - Linking bass.lib on Ubuntu
body: <p>I wrote an application on Windows using CPP and BASS, and now I have to get it running on Linux (UBUNTU).</p>
  
  <pre><code>I am using gcc version 4.5.2.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have bass.lib in my directory from which I try to compile prog.cpp using the following command arguments:</p>
  
  <pre><code>gcc prog.cpp -L. -lbass.lib
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbass.lib
  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I figure that this is a linking error, the compiler is not finding Bass.lib but I have specified as an argument on the command line.</p>
  
  <p>Not sure what to do, any help would be really great.</p>