Partial Static Linkage

[Brian McGrew]

On 11/29/10 9:22 AM, "Jonathan Wakely" <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 November 2010 16:08, Ryan Mansfield wrote:
>> On 10-11-29 10:51 AM, Brian McGrew wrote:
>>> 
>>> Good morning all!
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to tell the compiler/linker to use whatever static
>>> libraries
>>> are available first and then fall back to dynamic libraries only if static
>>> fails???
>>> 
>>> I靶e got some libraries that I靶e created that I need to link in and they
>>> are static.  However, some of the system libraries I rely on (like libXt)
>>> have no static versions.  I need my program to pick up the static versions
>>> of my libraries and then link to the dynamic versions of the system
>>> libraries that have no static counterparts.
>>> 
>>> Is this doable???  How?
>> 
>> Use the -Bstatic and -Bdynamic options. e.g.
>> 
>> -Bstatic <your static libs> -Bdynamic
> 
> Or simply don't have shared versions of your libs in the dirs searched
> by the linker. If the linker only finds a static lib in a directory it
> will use that, even if a shared lib with the same name exists in
> another directory later in the list of searched directories.

Ah, thank you!  Now that did what I wanted it to do!  I build shared and
static versions of my libraries and place them in /lib and /lib-static
accordingly.  Putting /lib-static first on the linker path did just what I
wanted to do.  So simple.  Why didn't I think of that???

-b