[CMake] Newbie question: Static linking

[Hendrik Sattler]

Zitat von Sanatan Rai <sanatan at gmail.com>:
> The `global initialisation' stuff is just the following pattern:
>
> namespace {
>   helper1 *helper1Creator()
>   {
>     return (new helper1());
>   }
>   const bool helper1Registered = factory::instance().registerhelper
>     ("helper1", helper1Creator);
> }
>
> So when I put the helpers in a separate library, these lines are not
> called.

Then you don't understand the implications of static libraries, yet.
Use the following from "man ld":
  --whole-archive
	   For	each  archive  mentioned  on  the  command  line   after   the
	   --whole-archive option, include every object file in the archive in
	   the link, rather than searching the archive for the required object
	   files.  This is normally used to turn an archive file into a shared
	   library, forcing every object  to  be  included  in	the  resulting
	   shared library.  This option may be used more than once.

	   Two	notes when using this option from gcc: First, gcc doesn't know
	   about this option, so you have to use -Wl,-whole-archive.   Second,
	   don't  forget  to  use  -Wl,-no-whole-archive  after	 your  list of
	   archives, because gcc will add its own list	of  archives  to  your
	   link and you may not want this flag to affect those as well.

HS