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To link your libftprintf.a (which is a static library containing your ft_printf implementation) with your main program, you can follow these steps using gcc: Steps:

Compile your main file: You need to compile your main.c file but not link it yet. This creates an object file for main.c that will later be linked with the libftprintf.a library.

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gcc -c main.c -o main.o

Link with libftprintf.a: Now, you need to link the object file (main.o) with your static library (libftprintf.a). Make sure to include the path where libftprintf.a is located.

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gcc main.o -L. -lftprintf -o my_program

Explanation:
    -L.: This tells the linker to look for libraries in the current directory (.). If libftprintf.a is in another directory, you can specify the path (e.g., -L/path/to/library).
    -lftprintf: This links the libftprintf.a library. The -l flag automatically adds the lib prefix and .a suffix (so it looks for libftprintf.a).
    -o my_program: This specifies the name of the output file, which will be your executable (you can name it anything you want, e.g., my_program).

Example:

If your main.c and libftprintf.a are in the same directory, you would run:

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gcc main.c -L. -lftprintf -o my_program

If libftprintf.a is in a directory called libft, you would run:

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gcc main.c -L./libft -lftprintf -o my_program

Running the program:

Once the program is successfully compiled and linked, you can run it:

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./my_program

This should correctly link and run your ft_printf implementation along with your main tests!

valgrind --leak-check=full ./my_program