Linking against a built library

[Lachlan O'Dea]

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Hi,

I've just started looking into Cons. It's going fairly well so far. 
However, now I'm trying to build an executable that links against a 
shared library that is also built by Cons.

I'm using some code from the list archives to build the shared library 
itself - that works fine. But I can't see an easy way to specify that a 
particular program should be linked against this library. Using LIBS 
doesn't fit that well, since it's global and I think I have to work out 
the paths myself. Also, since my SharedLibrary method is basically a 
copy of the Program method, it also uses LIBS, which can result in a 
circular dependency. It seems like LIBS is designed to reference system 
libraries, not those built by Cons.

One option I thought of was to modify the Program method so that it 
would automatically detect libraries in the parameter list, for example:

Program $cons 'test', 'test.cpp', 'mylib.so';

Except that using ".so" like that isn't really cross-platform. 
Currently, Program tries to treat all parameters as source code or 
object files.

Any thoughts on how to handle this? Am I missing something obvious?

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Lachlan O'Dea <address@hidden>       Computer Associates Pty Ltd
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