How does the compilation and linking process work? (Note: This is meant to be an entry to Stack Overflow's C++ FAQ. If you want to critique the idea of providing an FAQ in this form, then the …

I can't get the additional libraries I am working with to link into my project properly. I am using CLion, which uses cmake to build its projects. I am trying to use several libraries in conjunctio...

It feels strange to me to use -Wl,-Bstatic in order to tell gcc which libraries I want to link with statically. After all I'm telling gcc directly all other information about linking with librarie...

In my opinion, the disadvantages of static linking outweigh the advantages in all but very special cases. As a rule of thumb: link dynamically if you can and statically if you have to.

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Weak linking with weak_import really only works well with dynamic libraries. You can get it to work with static linking (by specifying -undefined dynamic_lookup as suggested above) but this isn't …

I'm using VS2008 C#.NET. I created 3 different classes of libraries in 3 projects. I wrote an application which uses these libraries (dlls). What is happening is each project is compiling …

target_link_libraries(dummy b a) The program compiles and links just fine When this sort of system starts involving more complex inter dependency of the libraries, it starts to be …