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Re: Creating archive file with main
Hi Ajay,
Could I make an archive (.a) which includes the main?
Yes you can.
But when I combine this archive (which now has a main) with another
archive and then hope to create an executable out of it, the linker
starts cribbing.
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i.e. gcc 1.a 2.a -o out
where 1.a has main complains of undefined references to crt.o
This does not happen for me:
% cat main.c
extern int foo (void);
int main (void) { return foo (); }
% cat foo.c
int foo (void) { return 1; }
% gcc -c main.c foo.c
% ar crv libmain.a main.o
% ar crv libfoo.a foo.o
% gcc libmain.a libfoo.a
% ./a.out
% echo $status
1
Can you put together a full demonstration of the problem that you are
having ?
Cheers
Nick