llvm dev - May 2019 - force linker to load symbols from archive (8.a) , even application does not use them explicitly

Hello,





I want to force the linker to load all the symbols (object files) related
to specific archive (.a) even though the application does not use them
explicitly.



(In similar in gnu linker the option for the linker will be –whole-archive,
or in diab –A ).



System is 64bit.







Re,

Yehuda Marko



Yehuda.Marko at scaleil.com +972544373003

ScaleIL



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Hi,



On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:37 PM yehuda marko via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I want to force the linker to load all the symbols (object files) related
> to specific archive (.a) even though the application does not use them
> explicitly.
>
>
>
> (In similar in gnu linker the option for the linker will be
> –whole-archive, or in diab –A ).
>

It seems that your question relates to the linker, are you asking about
lld? lld supports the --whole-archive flag as well I believe.

If your question is not about lld, can you clarify what you're looking for
exactly?

Best,

-- 
Mehdi
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Hello ,



The linker is ldarm64.EXE

The llvm version is 3.8.1.1





/llvm-3.8.1.1/WIN32/bin/ldarm64.EXE



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Yehuda Marko



Yehuda.Marko at scaleil.com +972544373003

ScaleIL

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*Sent:* Thursday, May 16, 2019 8:53 AM
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*Subject:* Re: [llvm-dev] force linker to load symbols from archive (8.a) ,
even application does not use them explicitly



Hi,







On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:37 PM yehuda marko via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

Hello,





I want to force the linker to load all the symbols (object files) related
to specific archive (.a) even though the application does not use them
explicitly.



(In similar in gnu linker the option for the linker will be –whole-archive,
or in diab –A ).





It seems that your question relates to the linker, are you asking about
lld? lld supports the --whole-archive flag as well I believe.



If your question is not about lld, can you clarify what you're looking for
exactly?



Best,



-- 

Mehdi
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