How to link using GCC without -l nor hardcoding path for a library that does not follow the libNAME.so naming convention?

Question

I have a shared library that I wish to link an executable against using GCC. The shared library has a nonstandard name not of the form libNAME.so, so I can not use the usual

Answer 1

If you can copy the shared library to the working directory when g++ is invoked then this should work:

g++ -o build/bin/myapp _mylib.so other_source_files