Re: [Caml-list] static C library of wrappers: compilation issues

[Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>]

On 04/26/2012 12:08 PM, Xavier ALLAMIGEON wrote:
> What do you mean exactly? I imagine that test.o needs some functions of
> the libhello_world.a. But I don't see why libasmrun would need some
> other functions of libhello_world...

Well, this is the case. libasmrun contains the runtime system for OCaml 
code (compiled with ocamlopt) and, as you can see in the error message 
from the linker, it depends on symbols provided by the OCaml program. 
For instance, the garbage collector (in libasmrum) needs to find special 
symbols, to locate some data structures (in libhello_world.a) created by 
the compiler.

> What about the following alternative where libasmrun is directly
> appended to the .a file?
> cp "`ocamlc -where`"/libasmrun.a libhello_world.a
> ar rcs libhello_world.a ml_code.obj.o c_code.o
> gcc -o test -L. -L"`ocamlc -where`" test.c -lhello_world -lm -ldl

This looks fine to me.

-- Alain