[news.eclipse.tools.cdt] Re: CDT static library project's linking option

[zyndor@xxxxxxxxx (Gyorgy Straub)]

Derek wrote:

> A static library doesn't link with anything. In fact, it is not linked 
> at all, it is just an archive of object files, created using 'ar'. That 
> is why there are no linking options.

I'm really confused now; using the -l switches does make the "undefined 
reference" errors go away (also, in xcode, in the OSX version of the 
library I link against SDL and OpenGL too, and it works just fine). I 
haven't got it in front of me, but as far as I can remember, the 
executable project has to link against the same libraries (OS X), however 
under Windows (in Eclipse), only the -l switches help. What's happening 
then?