Re: [Gm2] do I need separate libfiles for every module?

[Fischlin Andreas]

Dear Gaius,

Sounds excellent. That's all most useful.

Regards,
Andreas



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Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it!

Fischlin Andreas.vcf
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On 05/Feb/2010, at 16:44 , Gaius Mulley wrote:

> Martin Kalbfuß <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have the following lines:
> >
> > gm2 -c test.mod -I../def
> > gm2 test.mod -L../src/.libs -lsk -lSDL
> >
> > The first line works like I would expect it.
> > But the second line does not.
> >
> > gm2 says:
> >
> > cannot find SKVideo.o or SKVideo.a
> >
> > This is an imported module.
> > He cannot find them because there are no such files. SKVideo.o is  
> > part
> > of libsk.a
> >
> > Why does the linking step need an object file with the same name as  
> > the
> > module?
> > When I work with C and gcc, it's completely up to me where the code  
> > is,
> > as long as I link it
> >
> > I would do
> >
> > gcc -c test.c -I../include
> > gcc -o test test.o -L../src/.libs -lsk -lSDL
> >
> > or I could do
> >
> > gcc -o test test.o SKVideo.o -lSDL
> >
> > With gm2, only the second variant works. Is there a reason for this?
> > I find this behaviour more confusing hen helpfull. If he can't find  
> > the
> > referenced functions in the symbol table he tells me anyway with an
> > undefined reference error.
> >
> > I asume this behaviour is the reason why the linking step needs the  
> > name
> > of the module file, not the name of the object like gcc.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Hi Martin and John,
>
> now fixed in the latest CVS, thanks for the suggestion.  In the future
> gm2 could build its pim, iso, ulm libraries into libpim.a,
> libiso.a and libulm.a and link against those.
>
> regards,
> Gaius
>
>
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