> Whenever I want to link static libs, I specify the absolute
> path to the .a files, and stay away from -L/-l flags. ie:
>
> g++ [..] /usr/lib/libpng.a /usr/lib/libz.a [..] -o foo
>
> This always seemed to make it clear to both me and the linker
> what the intention is, and so dynamic libs won't "leak" into
> the binary by accident.
Yup, me too. And I think that's what we intended for the fltk-config
script to do too - it just isn't quite there yet.
Drifting off topic a wee bit:
I always believed that if you had a shared and a static version of a lib
in your folder, say libfoo.a and libfoo.{so|dylib|dll}, and you passed
the gcc linker the option "-lfoo" then it would always prefer the shared
object over the static archive, and would only pick the static archive
if no shared object was found.
So the *only* way to reliably make the liker pick the static archive was
to pass its full name, libfoo.a...
However, the other day I was trawling through some Makefiles from a
project on OSX and the guy that wrote them was using some trick linker
option (which I can't now find, or remember...) to make it pick the
static archive when the "-lfoo" option was passed...
Anybody else know what this is? Is it an OSX specific tweak or is it
standard? Can we use it in fltk-config when --ldstaticflags is set?
Thoughts?
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