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

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There is the “:” prefix that allows you to give different names to your libraries.
If you use 

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

should search your path for the _mylib.so.

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