libtiff build undefined reference to `_imp__TIFFOpen' error

Question

probably this is a trivial newbie question, however, I can't figure out how to solve it.

I'm trying to build a test program using libtiff (test program copied from here). I've downloaded the static library libtiff.lib as well as the required header file tiffio.h. When I compile the main c function with no problem I have a main.o file. When I try to link main.o with libtiff using this command

gcc -g -Wall -o test.exe ./libtiff.lib ./test.o

I have this error:

undefined reference to `_imp__TIFFOpen'

I've looked into the lib file with nm -A libtiff.lib command and I can find this line

libtiff.lib:libtiff3.dll:00000000 I __imp__TIFFOpen

but it has 2 leading underscores instead of 1 as required by the linker. I'm using mingw on Windows 7 and all the required files are in the same directory.

No clue how to link with no errors.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As suggested in the the comments, it was sufficient to invert the order of objects passed as arguments:

gcc -g -Wall -o test.exe ./test.o ./libtiff.lib