Re: [MiNT] g++ problem with archives & linking

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 19:33 +0100, Frank Naumann wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > Whereas if you do this...
> >
> > m68k-atari-mint-g++ -o main main.o
> >
> > it works fine.
> >
> > Any ideas Vincent ??
> 
> I'm not Vincent but your first g++ line is incorrect I think (I assume the 
> same happens with gcc). You must at least specify an object file with 
> main(). For static libraries the gcc linker optimize linkage by throwing 
> away any unused symbols. Without any object file the library is completly 
> skipped (the startup code don't count).

Ah, yes, right you have hit the problem Frank, but this works fine on
Linux, even with using -static or without.

Alan.