Linking multiple libraries

[A Guy With a Question]

On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 22:31:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 22:18:52 UTC, A Guy With a 
> Question wrote:
>
>>
>> That's how I set up the linking in Visual D. Everything 
>> builds. But should the final exe try to link against all 3 
>> libraries, library 3 link to library 1 & 2 and library 2 link 
>> to library 1 (also builds)? Or is the single dependence chain 
>> I created work without quirks?
>>
>> Is there a functional difference at the end of the day?
>
> You don't link static libraries with each other. They're just 
> collections of object files intended to be linked with an 
> executable or a DLL. Order doesn't matter for optlink or the MS 
> linker, but other linkers, such as ld (which is commonly used 
> with GCC) require the libraries be passed in according to 
> dependencies, e.g. dependent libraries come before their 
> dependencies. Not sure if the LLVM linker retains that behavior.

Yes. That also worked when I tried it.