Telling gcc directly to link a library statically
Use -l: instead of -l. For example -l:libXYZ.a to link with libXYZ.a. Notice the lib and .a are written out, as opposed to -lXYZ which would auto-expand to libXYZ.so/libXYZ.a. It is an option of the GNU ld linker: -l namespec … If namespec is of the form :filename, ld will search the library path for a file called filename, otherwise it will search the library path for a file called libnamespec.a. … on ELF … systems, ld will search a directory … Read more