Building libraries on Linux

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Sean Kelly schrieb am 2006-03-04:
> This one is a tad weird and I'm hoping someone can explain it to me. 
> When I try to build a library on Linux (Ares) and then link against that 
> library, I get a bunch of link errors saying "undefined reference to 
> '_ModuleInfo_3std1c6string'" and so on.  It appears this problem goes 
> away if empty unittest blocks are added to all modules currently lacking 
> unit tests, but this seems an odd fix.  I've tried building the library 
> with a variety of switches for 'ar' but still see the problem.  Am I 
> doing something wrong, or is this a DMD bug?  I can't find any 
> significant differences in how my library is being built compared to how 
> Phobos is built.  Does it actually matter that libphobos.a is built as a 
> demendency of unittest.d?

unittest.d isn't the cause.

http://dstress.kuehne.cn/dstress.kuehne.cn/complex/typeinfo_init/a.d
http://dstress.kuehne.cn/dstress.kuehne.cn/complex/typeinfo_init/b.d

1) FAIL
dmd -c complex/typeinfo_init/a.d
dmd a.o complex/typeinfo_init/b.d

2) FAIL
dmd -c complex/typeinfo_init/b.d
dmd b.o complex/typeinfo_init/a.d

3) PASS
dmd complex/typeinfo_init/a.d complex/typeinfo_init/b.d 

Thomas


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