Re: [Chicken-users] static libraries in Linux

[Felix Winkelmann]

Andrey Fomichev wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm a bit confused building an example with static
> libraries.The example is trivial and everything works
> fine until I add -static option to chicken-config call.
> Sorry for my stupid problem, I guess I don't 
> understand something simple.
>
> Operating System: RedHat Linux 9.0
> Chicken version: 1.50
> The log of my unsuccessful attempt is below.
>
> $ gcc `chicken-config -static -libs` a.o

a.o has to come before the other libraries. The Linux
linker can only patch backward references, when linking statically.

$ gcc a.o `chicken-config -static -libs`

should work fine.

(Yes, that's a pretty stupid linker!)


cheers,
felix