Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

eld(1) OSS Shell and Utilities Reference Manual

-bstatic Directs eld to search only for archive ﬁles when it needs to search

for the ﬁle name speciﬁed in the -l or -lib ﬂag.

If the ﬁle name is unqualiﬁed, in each directory searched, eld ﬁrst

tries to open a ﬁle with the name speciﬁed for the -l or -lib ﬂag).

If eld cannot ﬁnd a ﬁle with the speciﬁed name and the search

path is not in the Guardian ﬁle system (/G), then eld preﬁxes lib

and sufﬁxes .a to the ﬁle name and attempts to open a ﬁle with

that modiﬁed name.

An error occurs if the opened ﬁle does not contain an archive.

For more information on search paths, see the Finding Libraries subsection of

this reference page under DESCRIPTION.

When a speciﬁed ﬁle cannot be found, eld issues an error message unless the

-allow_missing_libs ﬂag is speciﬁed.

The -bdllsonly, -bdynamic, and -bstatic ﬂags are search control toggles. Multi-

ple ﬂags can be speciﬁed in a single eld invocation; the behavior speciﬁed

remains in effect until another ﬂag in the set is speciﬁed. Thus, you can search for

both DLLs and archive ﬁles for some -l and -lib ﬂags and search for just archive

ﬁles for others.

The default library search control is -bdynamic.

-bglobalized Controls creation of the searchList for resolving the symbols in the loadﬁle. This

ﬂag causes the system to use the following sequence:

• For link-time resolutions:

1. The loadﬁle itself

2. The user library, if the loadﬁle is a program and has a user library

3. Breadth-ﬁrst transitive closure of DLLs on the libList

4. Implicit libraries

• For load-time resolutions:

1. The main program

2. The user library

3. Breadth-ﬁrst transitive closure of DLLs on the libList

4. Implicit libraries

You cannot use this ﬂag when you use the -blocalized, -bsemi_localized,or

-bsymbolic ﬂag. The default action is the action for the -blocalized ﬂag.

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