Extraneous Library Linkage
- by gmatt
I have a question which may be somewhat silly because I'm pretty sure I may know the answer already.
Suppose you have static library A, and dynamic shared object library B and your program C under linux. Suppose that library A calls functions from library B and your program calls functions from library A. Now suppose that all functions that C calls in A make no use of functions in B.
To compile C will it be enough to link just A and omit B and furthermore can your program C be run on a system without library B installed?