Support for automatic linking via pragma

Olaf van der Spek olafvdspek@gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 16:30:00 GMT 2011


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've submitted a feature request for automatic linking via pragma:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12485
> What do others think about the idea?

Somebody?

Let me quote the request:
MSVC supports the following pragma, which can be used to automatically link a
library when a header file is included. This is used by for example Boost.

It makes linking with the right lib a lot simpler. No more fiddling
with autoconf to detect the right lib name.

#pragma comment(lib, "requiredLibrary.lib")

Unfortunately, gold doesn't support this. Could you add it?

I assume this needs coordination with gcc.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39437

-- 
Olaf



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