Making: ".so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script"

[wimmar]

I always get this error for libcurl and websockets.. I don't know much about compilers and linkers (tried a lot of different g++ commands but no avail, always stuck somewhere, also tried installing libcurl and websockets etc and not linking them locally) Help would be greatly appreciated :)

make example

Making example

g++ -I../lib/libcurl-7.56.0/include -I../lib/jsoncpp-1.8.3/include -I../lib/libwebsockets-2.4.0/include -I../lib/libbinacpp/include
example.cpp
-L../lib/libcurl-7.56.0/lib
-L../lib/libwebsockets-2.4.0/lib
-L../lib/libbinacpp/lib
-lcurl -ljsoncpp -lcrypto -lwebsockets -lbinacpp -o example
/usr/bin/ld:../lib/libcurl-7.56.0/lib/libcurl.so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script
/usr/bin/ld:../lib/libcurl-7.56.0/lib/libcurl.so:1: syntax error
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:25: recipe for target 'example' failed
make: *** [example] Error 1

[loogycheung]

Hi sir, I also have this problem. I can compile successfully until I update ubuntu14.04 to 16.04 once, this problem happened.....
How to solve it ! Oh god!

[loogycheung]

Haha , I find the reason. The zip document should be decompressed in terminal by using instruction "unzip binacpp-master.zip", then all documents will be linked.
1, Right click document to decompression;
2, update linux system;
these two wrong way will cut the link which result to this problem.
Closed !