Hi Dan I think -l defaults to .so and does not include .a if the extension is not explicitly mentioned. However, I am not sure if anything in this area changed in the latest gcc. Regards Vardhan -----Original Message----- From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Hitt Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:17 PM To: Jonathan Wakely Cc: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: is there any way to change the order of name resolution in linking (aside from putting the libraries in the right order?) On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 27 September 2012 21:04, Dan Hitt wrote: >> >> I was not able to use the -l abbreviation > > Why not? It didn't resolve the reference. To be really specific here (except that i have to suppress some of the dozens of characters in the command), the command generated was: gcc-4.6 -Wl,--whole-archive,-lX11,--no-whole-archive [[[other stuff deleted]]] And that command gives the same result as just putting -lX11 first (as opposed to putting it last, which resolves everything). (It may be that the -l option somehow signifies *.so these days? Because it certainly gives a much smaller executable when it works, and i had to use the *.a forms with --whole-archive in order to make it work?) dan
