How to force gcc to link an unused static library

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Use --whole-archive linker option.

Libraries that come after it in the command line will not have unreferenced symbols discarded. You can resume normal linking behaviour by adding --no-whole-archive after these libraries.

In your example, the command will be:

g++ -o program main.o -Wl,--whole-archive /path/to/libmylib.a

In general, it will be:

g++ -o program main.o \
    -Wl,--whole-archive -lmylib \
    -Wl,--no-whole-archive -llib1 -llib2

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