Mixed static and dynamic link on Mac OS
- by barbaz
I want to use gcc to produce a shared library, but i want to link some other libraries it depends on statically. Now to produce the "standard" dynamically linked output file i use
gcc -dynamiclib *.o -lfoo -lbar -o outfile
which would be
gcc -shared *.o -lfoo -lbar -o outfile
on for a binutils ld on a linux system. Now if i want libfoo and libbar to be linked statically, I can name the static libraries directly
gcc -dynamiclib *.o /usr/lib/libfoo.a /usr/lib/libbar.a -o outfile
however, that way i have to look for the library files myself. GNU binutils ld supports this:
gcc -shared *.o -l:libfoo.a -l:libbar.a -o outfile
but apple's ld doesnt.
Is there a way to make apple's ld look for the static libraries himself?
If not, is there another way that would avoid naming the exact location of the archives, e.g. producing an intermediate output file out of the object files requiring libfoo and libbar with the -static switch and linking that file together with the remaining objectfiles to create the dynamic object?
