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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/uninstalled_static_linker.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/uninstalled_static_linker.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd2e4b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/uninstalled_static_linker.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +## More efficient static linking of uninstalled libraries + +A somewhat common use case of [[static_library]] is to create uninstalled +internal convenience libraries which are solely meant to be linked to other +targets. Some build systems call these "object libraries". Meson's +implementation does always create a static archive. + +This will now check to see if the static linker supports "thin archives" +(archives which do not contain the actual object code, only references to their +location on disk) and if so, use them to minimize space usage and speed up +linking. |