In the last episode (Dec 20), mal content said:
> So, if I want to link to the shared library /usr/local/libxyz.so, I
> simply add '-lxyz' to my program link commands. But what if I want to
> link to the equivalent static library?
One method is to pass -Bstatic and -Bdynamic to the linker at
appropriate places:
${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o myprogram myprogram.o -Wl,-Bstatic -lxyz
-Wl,-Bdynamic
That line will pull in libxyz.a while trying to use shared libraries
for everything else. The drawbacks are: 1) if for some reason you want
to link that binary statically, you can't just add a LDFLAGS+=-static
to the Makefile; you have to remove all instances of -Wl,-Bdynamic;
2) it's not a standard option (-Wl and -B are supported by Solaris and
GNU cc and ld, but not AIX), so it's no more portable than determining
the static library's filename and linking to it directly.
> I've not tried it, but I think this might work:
>
> /usr/local/lib/libxyz.so
> /usr/local/lib-static/libxyz.a
>
> That way, a program should be able to specify:
>
> cc -o myprog myprog.o -L/usr/local/lib -lxyz.so -L/usr/local/lib-static -labc
>
> ...and get the dynamic 'libxyz.so' and the static 'libabc.a'.
-L adds paths to the end of the search list, so if there's a
/usr/local/lib/libabc.so, the linker will use that.
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Dan Nelson
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