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Re: is there any way to change the order of name resolution in linking (aside from putting the libraries in the right order?)

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: "Feuerbacher, Alan" <AFeuerbacher at allegromicro dot com>
Cc: Dan Hitt <dan dot hitt at gmail dot com>, "gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:56:45 -0700
Subject: Re: is there any way to change the order of name resolution in linking (aside from putting the libraries in the right order?)
References: <CAOphiz+Cvfa-=zw63VEY1t+fUBHyoe_s+nc_VJTRdBYEXHEf=w@mail.gmail.com> <CAKOQZ8y50rM=ZcjLm9sCZBAAdj7+s=cPqerbJHpCngztje4Siw@mail.gmail.com> <680BABF85B31BC4DB6E3E4E33D569F4D0AC12D1B@NHEXCH2.allegro.msad>

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Feuerbacher, Alan
<AFeuerbacher@allegromicro.com> wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
>
>> One thing that may work, if you are using the GNU linker or something
>> reasonably compatible, is
>>     -Wl,--whole-archive,-lMYLIB,-Wl,--no-whole-archive
>>
>> That will link in the entire contents of the library, so all the
>> symbols defined in the library will be available.
>
> I'm trying something like that for a related purpose, but for it to work you have to replace the "," after "MYLIB" with a space. Otherwise gcc complains about an invalid option "-Wl".

Sorry, I should not have duplicated the -Wl.  (See the docs for -Wl,
which is a GCC option, for how it works.)

Ian

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