On 30 September 2012 02:05, Dan Hitt wrote: > Thanks Sundara. > > Actually, i tried several variations to try to specify the extension. > > These are the variations i tried, with the results: > -lX11 (found, but does not resolve symbols) At the start of the link line there are no symbols to resolve. If -lX11 finds both libX11.so and libX11.a then it will prefer the shared library, and --whole-archive doesn't affect shared libraries. > -lX11a (cannot find) This looks for a library called libX11a.so or libX11a.a so obviously won't work. > -lX11.a (cannot find) This looks for libX11.a.so or libX11.a.a, so won't work. > lX11 (cannot find) This looks for a file called lX11 in the current dir. > libX11 (cannot find) > libX11a (cannot find) > libX11.a (cannot find) > llibX11.a (cannot find) Similarly, these look for files with that exact name in the current dir. > -llibX11.a (cannot find) This looks for liblibX11.a.so or liblibX11.a.a, so won't work. > Just for reference, these go in the arguments as > -Wl,--whole-archive,<<library goes here>>,--no-whole-archive > > and so far, the only things that don't bail are -lX11 and > /usr/lib/...../libX11.a, > and the latter is the only thing that actually resolves any symbols. You could make the former work (e.g. with --no-as-needed or -static) but giving the full path to the static archive works too.
