Xlinker

Passes a linker option directly to the linker.

IDE Equivalent

None

Architectures

IA-32, Intel® EM64T, Intel® Itanium® architecture

Syntax

Linux:	-Xlinker option
Windows:	None

Arguments

option

Is a linker option.

Default

OFF	No options are passed directly to the linker.

Description

This option passes a linker option directly to the linker.
If -Xlinker,-shared is specified, only -shared is passed to the linker and no special work is done to ensure proper linkage for generating a shared object. -Xlinker just takes whatever arguments are supplied and passes them directly to the linker.

If you want to pass compound options to the linker, for example "-L $HOME/lib", you must use one of the following methods:

-Xlinker -L -Xlinker $HOME/lib
-Xlinker "-L $HOME/lib"
-Xlinker -L\ $HOME/lib

Alternate Options