QT and Linking Other Libraries

I started QT and trying to write some small programs. In one program, I wanted to send mail. Found a code how to send mail in C++ (uses winsock library, not QT’s) and integrated it to my program. But how, I gives some bunch of errors. They were linking errors.

... /mailer.cpp:17: undefined reference to `WSAStartup@8'
...

Then a little research helped to me: This link.

Open your project file (<projectname>.pro):

and add the line:

LIBS += < WHERE-YOUR-LIBRARY-FILE-IS-LOCATED >

If your library is located in [QTDIR]\mingw\lib directory, you can just add the name of it (without its filename extension: .a):

LIBS += libwsock32

If you are developing in linux, the default library directory(or one of the library directories) might be /usr/lib.