Question

I’m using a pre-built library called ‘libdscud-6.02.a’, which includes a lot of low level I/O calls for some specific hardware. From this, I created some wrapper functions which I compiled into an object file called ‘io.o’.

Now, I have a few programs which I’m compiling with these I/O functions and instead of having to do this:

gcc libdscud-6.02a io.o -o test test.c

I would like to just have this:

gcc io.o -o test test.c

Is there any way to link the .a file into the .o file so I only need to include the .o file when compiling binaries?

Answer 1

You could do the opposite and add the io.o file to the .a file using ar:

ar q libdscud-6.02.a io.o