> G++ passes the options through to the linker, That is fine. > so the required ordering depends on the linker, so it doesn't belong in the GCC documentation. I disagree to this conclusion. Each tool accepts also variations in the parameter order on the command line. > What part of this are you still struggling with? I imagine that there might be fine-tuning possible within the category "link options". The challenge remains from an error message like "undefined reference to `PPlugin_PVideoInputDevice_Application_link()'". Regards, Markus