nakiya
Reputation: 14413
Linking with --whole-archive flag
This problem is related to This question I asked yesterday.
Now it seems that the linker flag --whole-archive forces the test object to be included in the binary. However, in linking with,
g++ main.cpp -o app -Wl,--whole-archive -L/home/dumindara/intest/test.a -Wl,-no--whole-archive
I get the following error:
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
What to do?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 2356
Answers (1)
C. K. Young
Reputation: 223023
.a files are meant to be statically linked, and so are not compiled with -fPIC. Consequently, you cannot make a shared library from it.
Upvotes: 2
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