Kövesdi György wrote:
>> It's doing what it's supposed to do. When you link against a static
>> library, an objects is only pulled into the executable if there's a
>> reference to it.
>
> Is there a possibility to force linking the unreferenced objects too? I didn't
> find such option for the linker.
Did you really look?
--whole-archive
For each archive mentioned on the command line after the
--whole-archive option, include every object file in the archive in
the link, rather than searching the archive for the required object
files. This is normally used to turn an archive file into a shared
library, forcing every object to be included in the resulting
shared library. This option may be used more than once.
Two notes when using this option from gcc: First, gcc doesn't know
about this option, so you have to use -Wl,-whole-archive. Second,
don't forget to use -Wl,-no-whole-archive after your list of
archives, because gcc will add its own list of archives to your
link and you may not want this flag to affect those as well.
