Statically linking a shared library to another library to be statically linked

[corey taylor]

Mohit,

  What is the result that you are looking for?  Do you not want to
specify libone.a if you link libtwo.a or something else?

corey

On 5/30/05, Mohit Kumar <mohit.kumar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> First of all, apologies for such a cryptic subject, even I took some
> time to figure out how should I frame the subject but could not think
> of any better way.
> 
> I am stuck with the following scenario:
> 
> Suppose I have three files: libone.a, libtwo.a and libmain.so, and I
> want to implement the followinf hierarchy:
>     libmain.so
>         |-----libtwo.a
>                    |-----libone.a
> 
> As far as linking libtwo.a to libmain.so is concerned I am aware I
> need to use '-l' flag at link time.
> But is there a way I can link a .a file to another .a file?
> 
> I am aware I can do the following:
> ar x libone.a ----> generates all the .o's
> ar q libtwo.o *.o's
> 
> However I am looking for a cleaner way.
> 
> Any help in this regard would be highly appreciable.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mohit
>