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| author | Dan Hawson <18214721+GertyP@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-06-15 10:50:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2023-06-27 20:22:11 +0300 |
| commit | 8e879911ecc3e3934da552d9b936604a00abc144 (patch) | |
| tree | 0da7fe5be08a355824e2912abc4729d26deaf716 | |
| parent | c900e6b0b321ceed4f269965741201f835d00a89 (diff) | |
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Added a little more useful info to 'link_whole' documentation, describing the use of /LINKWHOLE with MSVC and the behaviour of re-exporting symbols of individual objects in a static library.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/yaml/functions/_build_target_base.yaml | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/yaml/functions/_build_target_base.yaml b/docs/yaml/functions/_build_target_base.yaml index 79924d8..724b6a4 100644 --- a/docs/yaml/functions/_build_target_base.yaml +++ b/docs/yaml/functions/_build_target_base.yaml @@ -123,8 +123,10 @@ kwargs: type: list[lib | custom_tgt | custom_idx] since: 0.40.0 description: | - Links all contents of the given static libraries - whether they are used by not, equivalent to the `-Wl,--whole-archive` argument flag of GCC. + Links all contents of the given static libraries whether they are used or + not, equivalent to the `-Wl,--whole-archive` argument flag of GCC, or the + '/WHOLEARCHIVE' MSVC linker option. This allows the linked target to + re-export symbols from all objects in the static libraries. *(since 0.41.0)* If passed a list that list will be flattened. |