* Alexandre Oliva wrote on Thursday, September 08, 2005 22:13 CEST:
> On Aug 23, 2005, Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I don't know of
> any linker that searches for say foo.a when given -lfoo.
Uhm, how about ld? 'info ld' reveals...
For instance, when ld is called with the argument `-lxxx' it will
attempt to find, in the first directory of its search path,
libxxx.dll.a
xxx.dll.a
libxxx.a
cygxxx.dll (*)
libxxx.dll
xxx.dll
before moving on to the next directory in the search path.
(*) Actually, this is not `cygxxx.dll' but in fact is
`<prefix>xxx.dll', where `<prefix>' is set by the `ld' option
`--dll-search-prefix=<prefix>'. In the case of cygwin, the
standard gcc spec file includes `--dll-search-prefix=cyg', so in
effect we actually search for `cygxxx.dll'.
Note that since ld on windowsish platforms can link directly to the
shared lib (cygxxx.dll, libxxx.dll, or xxx.dll) instead of using an
import lib (libxxx.dll.a), it is certainly legal for the developer to
specify '-lfoo' and expect to successfully link against foo.dll.
--
Chuck
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