How to Figure Out What the Linker is Looking for

Refer to this stackoverflow answer.

For example,

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnvinfer

# try the following command
$ ld -lnvinfer --verbose

# the possible output would look like
    =========================================================
    attempt to open /usr/....../libnvinfer.so failed
    attempt to open /usr/.../libnvinfer.so failed
    .
    .
    .
# then fix this issue by creating a symlink
$ sudo ln -s /usr/.../libnvinfer.so /usr/.../libnvinfer.so

General Tricks about Compiling / Build

Display info about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) files

# -d flag stands for --dynamic
$ readelf -d <bin> | grep NEEDED