[Scons-users] Workaround/support for -Wl,--whole-archive

[Jay West]

Yes, I'll add to the wiki.

Would love to help out in developing, but am under the gun for a major
project for work.  Maybe later in the year.

Jay

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:57 PM Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Jay,
>
> Plans for many enhancements.. Looking for more developers ;)
>
> Clever hack!
> Would you consider adding it to the wiki?
>
> -Bill
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Jay West <jhdub23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Previous workarounds for scons lack of support for -Wl,--whole-archive
>> was to use LINKFLAGS and manually add dependencies for all files listed in
>> LINKFLAGS.  While this works, having to generate the LINKFLAGS and having
>> to carefully manage the dependencies is a pain.
>>
>> Here is an alternate method.  Add the following to your scons file:
>>
>> whole_archive = env.Command('-Wl,--whole-archive', [], '')
>> no_whole_archive = env.Command('-Wl,--no-whole-archive', [], '')
>>
>>
>>
>> Now you can wrap the necessary libraries with
>> whole-archive/no-whole-archive in any combination. Example:
>>
>> so_libs = env.SharedLibrary('myso',
>> whole_archive+['libfoo1.a']+no_whole_archive+['libbar.a']+whole_archive+['libfoo2.a']+no_whole_archive)
>>
>>
>>
>> Are there any plans for scons to support -Wl,--whole-archive natively?
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>
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