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Re: dependency list for static libraries

From: Simon Richter <Simon dot Richter at hogyros dot de>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:51:48 +0200
Subject: Re: dependency list for static libraries
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References: <53b8973b-40a4-2550-3307-66d7f13707d5@symas.com>

Hi,

On 19.09.2017 17:49, Howard Chu wrote:

> We often get link errors when switching from dynamic linking to static
> linking, because dynamic libraries list all of their own dependency
> libraries, and static libraries don't. (And the program being linked
> doesn't know about those indirect dependencies.)

That is what libtool's .la files do — these have a list of extra
dependencies to be linked when linking statically.

   Simon

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  - From: Howard Chu

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