Linker -how it works

[Mike Parker]

Ty Tower wrote:

> now I have no library called " libm" whatever and "libpthread" does not end with ".a" ,rather it ends with "so.0"  . Its full title is libpthread.so.0.  
> 
> Will the linker still find and use it with that name?

yes, it's a Linux convention. Static libraries (.a) and shared libraries 
(.so) are interchangeable.

> 
> Is there somewhere on digitalMars site which explains this linking process - not that gives me a load of B/S of how good it is ?, but which explains how these switches work like "dmd man" for instance

This is not a DMD issue. It's an aspect of the GCC backend that DMD uses 
on Linux. You can start here for some info: 
http://www.lurklurk.org/linkers/linkers.html#linker2.

Look up the GCC manual (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/) for more details.