Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 17:13:31 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compiling static Message-ID: <5543F914.9060905@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <CADK3taLBgDxu4cjfBu%2B4RFeD=34mv66NO1WAzkpb7GLO48BO3g@mail.gmail.com> References: <5543E9D5.2030404@paz.bz> <CADK3taLBgDxu4cjfBu%2B4RFeD=34mv66NO1WAzkpb7GLO48BO3g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/01/15 16:28, Alex Merritt wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Jim Pazarena <fquest@paz.bz> wrote: > >> is there a way to tell cc (clang) to compile with static libraries? > > If you want to _compile_ code to a static library, you generate the object > files and then use "ar" to assemble them together into an archive file (.a). > > cc -c file0.c file1.c ... > ar rcus lib.a file0.o file1.o ... > > If you want to _link to_ (if that's what you mean by "compile with") static > libraries, you may specify the archive path to the linker instead of using > the dynamic linker flag (-l). > > cc prog.c /path/to/lib.a -o prog > > There may be other ways I am unfamiliar with. Is this not how gcc does it > also? > > -Alex > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > GCC (& most other compilers I am familiar with, such as SGI & Intel compiler suites) usually have a flag to the linker to tell it to use static linking (using archives, '.a' files, to link 1 big executable ready to go by itself) instead of dynamic linking, which is usually the default if nothing is specified. I think that is what the OP was asking about .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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