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+This is an example repo demonstrating a (almost certainly) newbie mistake I am making, that prevents cross compiling and linking when using a third party library.
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+`docker build -t deleteme .`
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+and then to actually run it against the included project, which should fail:
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+`docker run deleteme`
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+Notice that both the linux build and the windows build fail.