Re: gcc doesn't like my .o file at the end

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

alexl wrote:
> it wants it at the beginning. The gcc on my linux box doesn't care.
>
> Any way to make gcc work with the object file at the beginning?
>
> example:
>
> ---doesn't work
> $ gcc -mno-cygwin -mwin32 -I/[blah..] -L[blah..] 
> -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv   -o hello hello.o  
>
>
> ---works
> $ gcc hello.o  -mno-cygwin -mwin32 -I/[blah..] -L[blah..] 
> -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv   -o hello
>
> any ideas?


Yes.  Put it at the end where it belongs.  The fact that Linux doesn't
require this is a feature of Linux which, no matter how convenient it may
seem, is not portable.


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