Re: [Mingw-users] Linking with dlls

[L. D. <cod...@ho...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rodrigo Hernandez" <kw...@ae...>
To: <min...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Linking with dlls


> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>>My point was that we need to work a patch for binutils since an archive is
>>nothing more than a collection of objects.  It should work either way.
>>
>>Earnie
>>
> While you're at it, would it be too much to ask to make windres objects 
> work from inside static libraries?
> IE:
> windres resource.rc -o resource.o
> ar cru libsomelib.a someobj.o resource.o
> g++ someprogram.cpp -L. -lsomelib -o someprogram.cpp
>
> Would give undefined reference errors to the symbols in resource.o,
>
> g++ someprogram.cpp -L. -lsomelib resouce.o -o someprogram.cpp
>
> however would compile fine.
>
> I could write a test case if you want.
>
> Cheers!

I would be interested to see the linker error messages, since I thought that 
resource files do not contain "symbols"..

Luke