Greetings Libtool community,
I'm newcomer hoping to get some enlightment on libtool design
principles, with motivation to be helpful in making libtool support
win32 dlls sanely.
I would like to ask why libtool in the first place was made to use
ld to link libraries and not gcc? Only hint in documentation is that
using compiler will "lead to problems with inter-library
dependencies". From the first thought, it seems strange - it should be
in opposite, save little burden on tracking defaultly-linked
libraries. As far as I see, using g++ to seamlessly link C++ is what
currently become being done to overcome those C++ linking problems.
But what was the problem with gcc in the first place?
Thank you,
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Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist
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