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 … Read more
This is a pretty famous difference between Windows and Unix-like systems. No matter what: Each process has its own address space, meaning that there is never any memory being shared between processes (unless you use some inter-process communication library or extensions). The One Definition Rule (ODR) still applies, meaning that you can only have one … Read more
For the C-runtime go to the project settings, choose C/C++ then ‘Code Generation’. Change the ‘runtime library’ setting to ‘multithreaded’ instead of ‘multithreaded dll’. If you are using any other libraries you may need to tell the linker to ignore the dynamically linked CRT explicitly.
It is not possible to write the implementation of a template class in a separate cpp file and compile. All the ways to do so, if anyone claims, are workarounds to mimic the usage of separate cpp file but practically if you intend to write a template class library and distribute it with header and … Read more
PIE is to support address space layout randomization (ASLR) in executable files. Before the PIE mode was created, the program’s executable could not be placed at a random address in memory, only position independent code (PIC) dynamic libraries could be relocated to a random offset. It works very much like what PIC does for dynamic … Read more
As you say the order is undefined across different compilation units. Within the same compilation unit the order is well defined: The same order as definition. This is because this is not resolved at the language level but at the linker level. So you really need to check out the linker documentation. Though I really … Read more
Because that’s how the linking algorithm used by GNU linker works (a least when it comes to linking static libraries). The linker is a single pass linker and it does not revisit libraries once they have been seen. A library is a collection (an archive) of object files. When you add a library using the … Read more
Templated classes and functions are not instantiated until they are used, typically in a separate .cpp file (e.g. the program source). When the template is used, the compiler needs the full code for that function to be able to build the correct function with the appropriate type. However, in this case the code for that … Read more
I highly recommend to use Costura.Fody – by far the best and easiest way to embed resources in your assembly. It’s available as NuGet package. Install-Package Costura.Fody After adding it to the project, it will automatically embed all references that are copied to the output directory into your main assembly. You might want to clean … Read more
The compilation of a C++ program involves three steps: Preprocessing: the preprocessor takes a C++ source code file and deals with the #includes, #defines and other preprocessor directives. The output of this step is a “pure” C++ file without pre-processor directives. Compilation: the compiler takes the pre-processor’s output and produces an object file from it. … Read more