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Support Archive Libraries #2085

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CouleeApps opened this issue Nov 2, 2020 · 3 comments
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Support Archive Libraries #2085

CouleeApps opened this issue Nov 2, 2020 · 3 comments
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Component: Type Libraries Effort: Medium Issue should take < 1 month Impact: Low Issue is a papercut or has a good, supported workaround Type: Enhancement Issue is a small enhancement to existing functionality

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@CouleeApps
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Statically linked libraries for Mach-O/ELF come in the form of ar archives (.a extension). They are basically archives which contain a symbol table and a bunch of Mach-O/ELF object files, one per translation unit. Their format looks pretty similar to tar archives.

Probably blocking on #133
@CouleeApps CouleeApps added the Type: Enhancement Issue is a small enhancement to existing functionality label Nov 2, 2020
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@plafosse plafosse added Effort: Medium Issue should take < 1 month Impact: Low Issue is a papercut or has a good, supported workaround labels Nov 4, 2020
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As a workaround, archive files can be extracted by ar -x file and the individual object files can already be loaded.

Also, the Windows use .lib files for archive files. They have a different file format.

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Windows support is tracked in #1410.

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#1410 covers COFF (.obj) but the corresponding archive format for this issue is .lib files. so either track that here or make a new issue (because i'm about to close #1410 )

@galenbwill galenbwill mentioned this issue May 28, 2021
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