From: Chris Van Genderen <chris_van_genderen AT issiusa DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: RHIDE/DJGPP Linker Issue.
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:39:37 +0000
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I have a application that I have been writing using DJGPP and RHIDE.
The application includes two libraries, we'll call them lib_a and
lib_b.  Recently, I created a situation where a function in lib_a called
a function in lib_b.  When this happened, both RHIDE and the makefile
for the project failed with a linker error stating that the function in
lib_b was unresolved. After reading up on LD, I found that the order of
libraries on the command line IS relevant. After reversing the order of
the libraries, the program linked fine.  However, under RHIDE, I have
not been able to find a method to control the order in which the
libraries are presented to the linker, and RHIDE alphabetizes the files
in the project. Therefore, lib_a is always on the linker line before
lib_b.  Does anyone know of a way to alter the order of the files in a
project???

I have tried to list the libraries manually in the option->libraries
box. But, I when I use this box, the system complains that it cannot
find the libraries at all.

On the same subject, if a function in lib_b ever calls a function in
lib_a, there will be no way to link the project at all with LD. Am I
crazy, and missing something, or is this indeed the way that the system
is written???? It seems hardly logical that libraries cannot have
functions which call other libraries.


Any help would be appreciated.



Chris Van Genderen