Linking order on Linux matters?

[Jeremy DeHaan]

On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 20:29:19 UTC, Antoche wrote:
> On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 18:19:57 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan 
> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> New to Linux, so I wanted to double check something. I have a 
>> C shared library and a D static library. The D static library 
>> uses functions from the C library. On Windows, it didn't 
>> matter what order I linked the .libs in and it always compiled 
>> fine. On Linux, however, I have to link the static library 
>> first and then the shared library or else I get undefined 
>> symbols for each extern(C) function I declare in my D code. Is 
>> this normal for Linux or is it a compiler bug?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Order matters, no matter the language. See
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/409470/1924406

Thanks!

That's a great link. It cleared up quite a lot.