Re: [Tinycc-devel] Allow configuration of tcc libraries search path

[Rob Landley]

On 07/07/2011 01:22 PM, grischka wrote:
> Anyway.  As to the general issue with search paths, it would be good
> to find something clearer and more flexible.

A quick check finds:

http://landley.net/hg/tinycc/rev/f304c7e3de8d
http://landley.net/hg/tinycc/rev/374af493d0ac
http://landley.net/hg/tinycc/rev/647f1a3feb8b
http://landley.net/hg/tinycc/rev/22b60bb22c83
http://landley.net/hg/tinycc/rev/c42c2145d359
http://landley.net/hg/tinycc/rev/a283eb90c0f7

And so on, and so forth...  To be honest, it's been almost 4 years, I'd
have to go back and look up the details again.

> 
> 1) what paths does tcc need to search:
> - include paths
> - library paths
> - crt path (crt1.o etc)
> - interpreter path (ld-elf/linux.so)
> - libtcc1.a path (also for bcheck.o)

http://landley.net/notes-2009.html#21-11-2009

I also gave a talk about this topic at the OLS compiler BOF in 2008,
which there's video of, but that's a lot to wade through.  (The rant
about how a compiler isn't fundamentally different than a docbook->PDF
converter.)

Rob