Linking static libraries to other static libraries

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Static libraries do not link with other static libraries. The only way to do this is to use your librarian/archiver tool (for example ar on Linux) to create a single new static library by concatenating the multiple libraries.

Edit: In response to your update, the only way I know to select only the symbols that are required is to manually create the library from the subset of the .o files that contain them. This is difficult, time consuming and error prone. I’m not aware of any tools to help do this (not to say they don’t exist), but it would make quite an interesting project to produce one.

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