Re: c/6665: Import library order does matter

Re: c/6665: Import library order does matter

[rth]

Synopsis: Import library order does matter

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: rth
State-Changed-When: Thu May 16 19:08:29 2002
State-Changed-Why:
    (1) The linker is in the binutils package, not gcc.
    (2) The linker is working as designed.

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c/6665: Import library order does matter

[chorns]

>Number:         6665
>Category:       c
>Synopsis:       Import library order does matter
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 15 11:36:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     chorns@users.sourceforge.net
>Release:        Current CVS
>Organization:
>Environment:
Cross compile i386-mingw32msv from linux
>Description:
This has troubled me a couble of times before so I decided to make an example that illustrates the problem. If gcc builds an executable from a static library (or just a regular object file) that imports functions from a dynamic library, then gcc cannot resolve the imports from the import library if the import library is specified before the static library on the command line. E.g.

gcc -o myprogram.exe myprogram.o mydlibrary.a myslibrary.o

will not work, but 

gcc -o myprogram.exe myprogram.o myslibrary.o mydlibrary.a

will work.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run the attached example.
>Fix:
Put the import library last on the command line to gcc.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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