Re: [Help-gnucap] static linking default plugins

[al davis]

On Saturday 20 June 2015, wikitronic wrote:
> I'm trying to compile with the default plugins staticly
> linked.I keep getting the error:
> 
> build error: link order: dispatcher not yet constructed

It has to do with the order of running static constructors.  
Static constructors are run in the order linked, which is 
determined by the order that the object files are listed in the 
Makefile.

As a generalization, any *container* must be constructed before 
you can put anything in it.

In this case, the containers are the dispatchers.  The 
dispatchers must be constructed before anything that goes in 
them.

Normally, the dispatchers are in core, and plugins are added at 
run time, but there are a few exceptions to this.

The dispatchers are defined in lib/globals.cc, in the list of 
sources, it must be first.  (or last if your linker is 
backwards).

If you are static linking default plugins, the "lib" directory 
must be linked before the "apps" directory.