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74 >Chapter 5. Libraries and LWAR</H1
75 ><P
76 >LWTOOLS also includes a tool for managing libraries. These are analogous to
77 the static libraries created with the "ar" tool on POSIX systems. Each library
78 file contains one or more object files. The linker will treat the object
79 files within a library as though they had been specified individually on
80 the command line except when resolving external references. External references
81 are looked up first within the object files within the library and then, if
82 not found, the usual lookup based on the order the files are specified on
83 the command line occurs.</P
84 ><P
85 >The tool for creating these libary files is called LWAR.</P
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92 >5.1. Command Line Options</A
93 ></H1
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95 >The binary for LWAR is called "lwar". Note that the binary is in lower
96 case. The options lwar understands are listed below. For archive manipulation
97 options, the first non-option argument is the name of the archive. All other
98 non-option arguments are the names of files to operate on.</P
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105 ><CODE
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107 >--add</CODE
108 >, <CODE
109 CLASS="OPTION"
110 >-a</CODE
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114 >This option specifies that an archive is going to have files added to it.
115 If the archive does not already exist, it is created. New files are added
116 to the end of the archive.</P
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119 ><CODE
120 CLASS="OPTION"
121 >--create</CODE
122 >, <CODE
123 CLASS="OPTION"
124 >-c</CODE
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128 >This option specifies that an archive is going to be created and have files
129 added to it. If the archive already exists, it is truncated.</P
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132 ><CODE
133 CLASS="OPTION"
134 >--merge</CODE
135 >, <CODE
136 CLASS="OPTION"
137 >-m</CODE
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141 >If specified, any files specified to be added to an archive will be checked
142 to see if they are archives themselves. If so, their constituent members are
143 added to the archive. This is useful for avoiding archives containing archives.</P
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146 ><CODE
147 CLASS="OPTION"
148 >--list</CODE
149 >, <CODE
150 CLASS="OPTION"
151 >-l</CODE
152 ></DT
153 ><DD
154 ><P
155 >This will display a list of the files contained in the archive.</P
156 ></DD
157 ><DT
158 ><CODE
159 CLASS="OPTION"
160 >--debug</CODE
161 >, <CODE
162 CLASS="OPTION"
163 >-d</CODE
164 ></DT
165 ><DD
166 ><P
167 >This option increases the debugging level. It is only useful for LWTOOLS
168 developers.</P
169 ></DD
170 ><DT
171 ><CODE
172 CLASS="OPTION"
173 >--help</CODE
174 >, <CODE
175 CLASS="OPTION"
176 >-?</CODE
177 ></DT
178 ><DD
179 ><P
180 >This provides a listing of command line options and a brief description
181 of each.</P
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184 ><CODE
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186 >--usage</CODE
187 ></DT
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190 >This will display a usage summary
191 of each command line option.</P
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