linking problems with several static libraries

[guy keren]

read this tutorial fully - and you should get your answer:

http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/libraries/unix-c-libraries.html

in particular, the answer is in section 8.1

--guy


On 07/10/2013 09:31 PM, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been figthing this nice problem at work, which I would like someone to
> help me. Basically, I have several static libs (liba... libk) which I need to
> link to my program.
>
> My program needs liba, which in turn needs libb.. which in turn needs libk.
> The last libk needs symbols from liba.. and this is where it gets funky. While
> linking g++ complains that symbols are missing ... and from ar+nm I see that
> those symbols are avarilable on liba.
>
> My solution was to
>
> g++ -o blabla $(OBJS) liba.a libb.a l...libk.a liba.a
>
> I know that using -L -l does not work as well, at I do need to link liba.a
> twice.
>
> I can reproduce this on Ubuntu 10.04 64bit (default toolchain, gcc 4.6) and in
> Android's NDK (using all availble toolchains 4.4.3, 4.6 and clang 3.2).
>
> Can anyone explain why am I seeing this problem?
>
> - diego
>
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