Re: [Nasm-devel] build fails on OS X

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

On 08/02/16 09:51, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 09:48:11AM -0700, anonymous coward wrote:
>>> I think --whole-archive option needed for ld
>>
>> not supported under OS X, it seems -- the ld
>> man page doesn't have it, and there are hits
>> in web searches for this very topic
> 
> I hit the same problem in other project where i've been
> linking objects and archive file into executable. But
> since it's unsupported on osx, won't help. Thanks for
> trying!
> 

It's a massive hammer, though, and almost always wrong.  Other than some
serious low-level programming, the most legitimate use for it is when
you have objects in an archive that will be needed by subsequently
dlopen()'d objects.

	-hpa