John R Pretz <john.pretz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm attaching an example showing off my question. The executable is > built two ways. In the first way, it is build via a static library to > which the final executable is linked. In the second way, the object > files are just all compiled together skipping the library. There is a > global object (in global_object.cc) which I want to get created before > main() starts and it does not work if I build the executable by > linking against the static library. This is standard Unix linker behaviour for archives. > If anybody has any insight into how to make this work, I'd appreciate > it. is there some linker flag to get these unreferenced global > objects created? You use the --whole-archive option to direct the linker to pull in every object from an archive. You would normally use --whole-archive around th archives you want to pull in entirely, ending with --no-whole-archive. Ian
