How to merge two “ar” static libraries into one?

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There are at least three ways to do this natively. The first and most portable way is to use libtool. After having built the other libraries also with libtool, you can combine them just by adding the .la libs to an automake libaz_la_LIBADD variable, or directly from a Makefile with something like:

libtool --mode=link cc -static -o libaz.la libabc.la libxyz.la

The other two are at least available when using GNU ar. You can use an MRI script (named for example libaz.mri), such as:

create libaz.a
addlib libabc.a
addlib libxyz.a
save
end

and then execute ar as:

ar -M <libaz.mri

Or you can use a thin archive (option -T), which will allow adding other archives without getting them nested inside, although the downside is that if you want to distribute the static library, the detached object will be missing:

ar -rcT libaz.a libabc.a libxyz.a

All the above methods gracefully handle overlapping member names from the original archives.

Otherwise, you’d have to unpack into different directories and repack again, to avoid replacing overlapping member names:

mkdir abc; cd abc; ar -x ../libabc.a
mkdir xyz; cd xyz; ar -x ../libxyz.a
ar -qc libaz.a abc xyz

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