Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-config -emb-libs

[Felix Winkelmann]

Bruce Hoult wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 18:51, Felix Winkelmann wrote:
>
> > Bruce Hoult wrote:
> >
> > > A makefile I've inherited puts the following on the linker command line:
> > >
> > > `chicken-config -emb-libs -extra-libs`
> > >
> > > chicken-config complains about an unknown flag.
> > >
> > > Is -emb-libs an old name for -embedded, or something else entirely?
> > > (possibly not needed any more?)
> > >
> > >
> > > Do I need to put `chicken-config -embedded` into CFLAGS (it's not,
> > > there's only -cflags)??  I see it produces -DC_EMBEDDED
> >
> > Right. If a file is compiled with `-embedded' (or -shared),
> > then no `main()' is generated.
>
>
> Right.  And what about linking?  What did -emb-libs do, and is it no
> longer required, or has it been replaced by something else?

-emb-libs linked with a special version of the runtime-system that
did not contain any `main()' procedure. Now the main() is generated
in the compiled file itself (if needed). So we have one library
less to build.


cheers,
felix