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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Creating libraries of object module
Message-ID: <12233@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Feb 90 22:54:21 GMT
References: <34230@news.Think.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <34230@news.Think.COM> saroff@wotan.think.com.UUCP (steven saroff) writes:
>How does one create personal libraries or archives of object modules to
>like to.  I want to have a library of various useful sub program, and
>just link to them with a -l or something akin to it when I am compiling
>some larger code.

All that the "ld" or "cc" option "-lxxx" option does is to in effect
expand in-line to the pathname /usr/lib/libxxx.a.  You can always
specify the pathname of any library archive that you wish to be
searched at that point in the link-editing process.  Such archives
are created and maintained via the "ar" utility, which is described
in the UNIX Programmer's Reference Manual.

For example,
	cc -o foo foo.o foosubs.o mylib.a -lm