Re: Building an encapsulated library that uses GNAT sockets under Windows

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> Can [gprlib] build a static equivalent too? I.e. a static library
> containing a closure of all referenced objects plus initialization
> code.

I'm not sure it's relevant, but I posted a bug[1] on gnatmake & static
standalone libraries; I sent AdaCore a similar report on gprbuild, no
reply.

The problem was, for a static SAL, the using Ada main program needs to
see all the ALIs for it to be sure to call in all the dylibs required by
the library; so if e.g. libgnarl was only called by  non-interface units
it would get linked but not elaborated.

I wanted to use SALs because they automatically populate the include
directory with relevant source.

The GNAT GPL 2015 version of the patch is

diff --git a/src/gprlib.adb b/src/gprlib.adb
--- a/src/gprlib.adb
+++ b/src/gprlib.adb
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@
       Status       : Boolean;
 
    begin
-      if Standalone = No then
+      if Standalone = No or Static then
          for Index in 1 .. ALIs.Last loop
             declare
                Destination : constant String :=

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56616