Re: How to best organize and build large projects?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 22:36:14 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:19:05 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:
>>
>>> NB
>>> gnatmake will lose the ability to build libraries after the next
>>> release.
>>
>> Not a big loss, maybe. When building a static library one forced to
>> use "ar" anyway. There seem no obvious way to force "--whole-archive"
>> on the end project.
> 
> I don't understand what --whole-archive has to do with ar - it's an ld
> option.

If you have many subcomponents built as static libraries, you want to
collect all them into a single library. The only way to do this, I know, is
to build the library, unpack the result and all component's libraries and
then pack all object files again into a new library.

> And I usually use static libraries, don't see any benefit from using
> share libraries on my own machine.

It has, if you build a Windows DLL. Linux relocatable libraries are of less
use.

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