Ian, I'll give it a whirl. It worked perfectly on my little test. Thanks, John On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Ian Lance Taylor<iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >
