Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Bob Cowdery <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> This is such a basic problem I must be doing something daft. I have a >> set of static libraries which I am linking into a dll. None of the >> external references seem to be getting resolved. This is on Win7 and I >> have MinGW and msys installed using the msys make. I am using Eclipse >> CDT but get the same result from the command line. Here is the start of >> the build to which I added the -v flag, but it still didn't help me. I >> know this set of libraries builds into a shared library ok because I >> have done so using Python distutils. However, this time its not Python >> at the top end so I can't use that. >> > > The GNU linker used on MinGW is a Unix linker, and as such the order > of the -l options is significant and for each -l option it only pulls > in the objects required at that point in the link. This is different > from how Windows linkers behave. You most likely need to repeat your > -l options or use the --start-group/--end-group linker options. > > Ian > I had read that and I was quite careful to ensure the correct order. I did a test with just two libraries where the second referenced the first and as in my follow-up message it didn't pull them in unless I made a call into each from my main code. It's like the symbol tables are messed up somehow. Bob
