On 29 November 2010 16:08, Ryan Mansfield wrote: > On 10-11-29 10:51 AM, Brian McGrew wrote: >> >> Good morning all! >> >> Is there a way to tell the compiler/linker to use whatever static >> libraries >> are available first and then fall back to dynamic libraries only if static >> fails??? >> >> Iée got some libraries that Iée created that I need to link in and they >> are static. ÂHowever, some of the system libraries I rely on (like libXt) >> have no static versions. ÂI need my program to pick up the static versions >> of my libraries and then link to the dynamic versions of the system >> libraries that have no static counterparts. >> >> Is this doable??? ÂHow? > > Use the -Bstatic and -Bdynamic options. e.g. > > -Bstatic <your static libs> -Bdynamic Or simply don't have shared versions of your libs in the dirs searched by the linker. If the linker only finds a static lib in a directory it will use that, even if a shared lib with the same name exists in another directory later in the list of searched directories.
