linking with ar help

[y2bismil at engmail dot uwaterloo dot ca]

Hi all,

I'm having a bit of problem linking here.  I've archived several object files
and push those into the linker.  Then I get some, not a long though, of
undefined refereces errors.  These are straight c++ link errors.  No extern "C"
or asm or anything.  The 'complaining' file is c++, and the file where the
definition is, is also c++.

Now, this had my puzzled for a while, until I explicity linked to the originial
(unarchived) object files.  Doing this resolved the first few errors.  I'm
thinking I must be doing something wrong with the archiving.

the cygwin command I'm using.
  ar.exe rP $(.TARGET) <@<
      $(.SOURCES,W\n) 

I have tried other option combinations "cr" ...but to no avail.
To link, I do:
*****************************
gcc   -mno-cygwin   
   -lwsock32
   -g
   -o$(_Target)
   $(LinkFiles)
   myobject.o
*****************************

I've verified the contents of LinkFiles, which seems right.  Notice the
insertion of myobject.o...this is my hack to get past the first few errors.  I
don't want to add all the objects files here.  I wanted to use archives for a
reason.  BTW...there are duplicate object file names, but they are in different
directories.  When I archive each directory, I copy each arhive to a central
link directory, where everything is linked.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Yamin

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