aCC -l, which library is choosen by default? .sh or .a

[Favreau Cyrille]

Hi all,

The aCC documentation says that Arguments of the form -lx cause the linker to search the library libx.sl or libx.a in an attempt to resolve currently unresolved external references...

Which one is chosen if both files are present in the /usr/lib directory?

I am a bit confused :-/

Thanks for any help :-D
Cyrille

[Stefan Farrelly]

I cant say for sure, but I always thought it was .sl first

[Mike Stroyan]

The default is to use a shared library if both a shared and an archive library are found in the same directory. Ld won't look in additional directories for a shared library if it finds an archive library in the search path.
You can modify the behavior with the ld -a option (or -Wl,-a, for passing through a compiler). See "man ld" for a discussion of
archive, shared, archive_shared, and shared_archive search orders.

[Favreau Cyrille]

Thanks for your help guys!! Really appreciated :-D