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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-05-26 14:56:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-05-29 13:28:36 (GMT) |
| commit | 3941555d935afad8343c66f39579bfc611201a6f (patch) | |
| tree | 4f5b55b32aa25a56fb6f6f10ba896585878e6331 /Help/release | |
| parent | f530b3a26729d0820c804e312b72e0061d6eeb4b (diff) | |
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target_link_libraries: Place $<TARGET_OBJECTS> before libraries
Linkers always use object files explicitly specified on the command line
regardless of where they appear. Move them to the front of the list of
linked libraries in so that symbols required by the object files can be
resolved by any library.
Issue: #22149
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/release')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/link-objects-first.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/link-objects-first.rst b/Help/release/dev/link-objects-first.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c622e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/link-objects-first.rst @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +link-objects-first +------------------ + +* :command:`target_link_libraries` calls referencing object libraries + via the :genex:`TARGET_OBJECTS` generator expression now place the + object files before all libraries on the link line, regardless of + their specified order. See documentation on + :ref:`Linking Object Libraries via \$\<TARGET_OBJECTS\>` for details. |