When you see a -lsomething
, the library name is libsomething
. Doing a man librt
says the following:
NAME
librt, libposix4 - POSIX.1b Realtime Extensions library
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lrt [ library... ]
DESCRIPTION
Functions in this library provide most of the interfaces
specified by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension. See stan-
dards(5). Specifically, this includes the interfaces defined
under the Asynchronous I/O, Message Passing, Process
Scheduling, Realtime Signals Extension, Semaphores, Shared
Memory Objects, Synchronized I/O, and Timers options. The
interfaces defined under the Memory Mapped Files, Process
Memory Locking, and Range Memory Locking options are pro-
vided in libc(3LIB)
See the man pages for the individual interfaces in section
3RT for information on required headers.
The name libposix4 is maintained for backward compatibility
and should be avoided. librt is the preferred name for this
library.