Xlinker

Passes a linker option directly to the linker.

IDE Equivalent

Windows: None

Linux: Linker > Miscellaneous > Other Options

Mac OS X: None

Architectures

IA-32, Intel® 64 architectures

Syntax

Linux and Mac OS X:

-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 the following method:

-Xlinker -L -Xlinker $HOME/lib

Alternate Options