RE: [Dev-C++] Linker :: Under the hood.

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On 27 May 2004 at 12:00, Damien A wrote:

> 
> "ld (and therefore gcc) is sensitive about the order in which 
> libraries and object
> files are specied on the command line. If libfoo.so depends on 
> libbar.so, you
> must specify libfoo.so first (as counterintuitive as this may be). The
> reason is that ld keeps track only of unresolved symbols as it links.
> If libfoo.so and libbar.so depend on each other, one of the libraries
> will have to be specified twice (for example, -lfoo -lbar -lfoo)."
> -Programming Linux Games , pg 33 

Wow.

Interesting.  Thanks!

Watson