Re: libpari and static linking

["Prof. J. E. Cremona" <john.cremona@nottingham.ac.uk>]

Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I wrote a C++ program which uses libPARI for factoring integers (the
>> function Z_factor()).  However, it only compiles with dynamic linking.
>> When I link -static, I get the following errors:
>>
>> factor.o: In function `factornumber(number_t const&)':
>> factor.cpp:(.text+0x10c): undefined reference to `avma'
>> factor.cpp:(.text+0x16c): undefined reference to `bot'
>> [more errors like this...]
> 
> I found out how to fix the problem:
> apparently the -lpari linker option must be given AFTER all object
> files, so I need to do
> 
> g++ -static myobj1.o myobj2.o myobj3.o -omyprogram -lpari -lgmp
> 
> With -lpari -lgmp at the end.  I found this out using trial and error, I
> cannot explain why.

>From my limited knowledge of these things it parses the line in order
and when it reaches a library flag like -lpari it only looks in that
library for symbols it already knows that it needs, i.e. from .o files
it has seen already.  So if you use a pari function in foo.o then you
need to put -lpari after foo.o on the command line.

John

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