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Most Windows compilers support auto-linking, while GCC does not support auto-linking.
Can someone explain to me why that is?
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GCC and auto-linking?
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Posted 29 December 2010 - 09:01 PM
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A few hours ago, I looked up how to auto-link in the GCC compilers, and I ended up on a Wikipedia page saying,
Can someone explain to me why that is?
Can someone explain to me why that is?
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Posted 29 December 2010 - 09:58 PM
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Hi,
It appears to be a compiler feature specific to MSVC related compilers for compatibility, it was never intended to be designed for the GCC tool chains and remains unsupported in most other compilers.
It appears to be a compiler feature specific to MSVC related compilers for compatibility, it was never intended to be designed for the GCC tool chains and remains unsupported in most other compilers.
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Posted 30 December 2010 - 09:33 AM
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auto-linking assumes that ALL libraries exist in a known location. Windows can store that information in the Registry, which means MS tools can easily track that information down. Different *nix's store their libraries in different locations, and have different mechanisms for keeping track of where they are, updating them, etc. When your environment doesn't provide a consistent mechanism for providing all of this information, providing auto-linking suddenly becomes very, very challenging.
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