On 08/31/2013 07:29 PM, LMH wrote: > Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 08/31/2013 03:10 AM, NightStrike wrote: >>> If I compile c++ code, I am supposed to use g++. This automatically >>> does some magic that calling just Gcc would not do. The same with >>> Fortran code and gfortran. So my question is which frontend should I >>> use to link if I have object files from both c++ as well as Fortran, >>> c, and maybe another language still? >> >> You'll probably use gcc but explicitly link in each language's support >> library. > > You can really do it in whatever way you want. If you have an > application with mixed src code, you could compile it as FORTRAN and > link to the c library, or compile as c and link to the FORTRAN library. > Whether you compile as c or c++ doesn't make any real difference. That's technically true, but IME in mixed-language build environments it's probably best to be explicit in the makefiles about what you need. Andrew.
