Re: Linking the whole archive.

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Vaclav Slavik <[email protected]> wrote:

> This text would be much easier to understand if you didn't confusingly
>

Sorry.


> > I am suggesting adding a tag to allow this, maybe call it
> > "all-objects" or something.
>
> It should be something with "library" in its name, because of the
> relation to <library> (e.g. <embed-library> or something)...
>

I understand the need to link it to libraries.  Just couldn't think of any
decent names.  I like <embed-libraries>.

I'm not discussing a replacement for <library>, this is a modifier like
<lib-path>.  I would prefer to have <embed-library> replace <library>, but
I'm certain that Bakefiles can't do this across all of it's platforms:
potentially different behaviors on each platform.  No good.  It's an all or
nothing tag.


> > Comments?
>
> How are you going to handle the formats that don't support this?


This is probably not possible for msvs2003 and earlier.  It's NON-trivial
for MS Makefiles;  requiring a lot of effort for a largely unused feature
(my change, not MS makefiles).  I think it is better to have Bakefile print
an error (e.g. "Bakefile does not support embedding libraries on this
platform") and let the user decide what to do from there (i.e. change their
bakefile or add support).

The other option is generating a tag that adds custom tag/value pair defines
for projects (e.g. xcode2 and msvs2005).  This would allow me to get the
same thing done and more.  Although it's more work.

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Scott Bailey

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