Re: [Tinycc-devel] Is static linking functional?

[grischka]

Wendell P wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014, at 01:02 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> > > I have tried a few methods to produce an MSVCRT in ELF format suitable
> > > for static linking with TCC on Windows, but so far no success. If you
> > Why would you do this?
>
> At this point, I'm just trying to see if it is even possible. TCC has
> this "-static" feature, but it appears to be unusable (at least on
> Windows).

Why should we comment about the usability of -static if you
don't even know that it means?

Anyway.  "-static" is not a feature, it is a switch.

The feature is "static linkage".  It is the ability to link
static libraries and is always present in tcc.

To link the hello_dll.exe example with the code from dll.c
statically:

        tcc -c dll.c -o msg.o
        tiny_libmaker msg.a msg.o
        tcc hello_dll.c msg.a

Note: No "-static" anywhere.  Recipe for dynamic linkage is in
tcc-win32.txt.

-- gr