Link static library with static library

Question

I have a Makefile.am with two noinst_LIBRARIES , and one of them needs to link with the other.

Adding it to the CFLAGS throws a compiler warning, but as far as I know, automake likes to freak out about using LDADD with libraries, since they are not complete programs.

How can I do this, assuming libb.a needs to pull in liba.a ?

Answer 1

You can't do it. Actually, what you are trying to do doesn't really make sense. Static libraries are just archives containing object files and a table of contents. Put simply, you can think of a static library as a .zip containing .o files.

The linking phase only takes place when compiling a shared object or executable. When your program is linked against liba.a , you also need to specify -static -lb or similar and that's it.