From: Keith M. <kei...@us...> - 2013-10-21 11:18:06
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On 21/10/13 11:00, Peter Rockett wrote: > Long time since I used it but, if I recall, the MSVC linker does not > display this ordering behaviour. So anybody coming over to MinGW from > the 'dark side' could be excused for being nonplussed. Last time I used a Microsoft linker was back in the days when MS-DOS was the dominant PC operating system, (and in the early days, LINK.EXE was even distributed with the OS itself); IIRC, while it may not have absolutely required it, it did encourage specifying object files before libraries; (it would even *prompt* for them, in that order, if you left the command line incomplete). > I appreciate Keith's frustration on this but, IMO, this really is an > genuine idiosyncrasy so is likely to continue to trip people up. It is frustrating, when you've lost count of the number of times you've answered this same recurring question. However, the primary goal of my previous post was to indicate that the answer can be readily found, by an obvious google search, without resorting to trawling mailing list archives, where I agree, subject headers may be less than obvious. -- Regards, Keith. |