ImportC linking issue

[confuzzled]

On Saturday, 12 November 2022 at 08:43:13 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 November 2022 at 02:45:52 UTC, confuzzled wrote:
>
> The linker doesn't care if the libraries are C or D, and the 
> compiler is only involved in that you can pass flags to the 
> linker via the compiler command line.
>

Mike, first of all, thanks for the in depth response. That all 
makes sense. The issue I'm having is this: having made sure the 
two dependencies are available and building the 
libxlsxio_reader.a from the source without errors, why would I 
need to hunt down all the dependencies from that library to 
include them in my program?

I figured that importing the header and passing libxlsxio_read.a 
on the command line would be enough? Why would I have to search 
for libcrypto, libminizip, libexpat, and more that I haven't even 
figured out what library they are? I thought those dependencies 
would already be linked into libxlsxio_read.a which is a 
statically linked library.

I guess my noob is showing a lot. Again, thanks for your 
assistance.

confuzzled!!!