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Add IHEX output format to lwlink At the request of Craig Iannello who provided a small bribe, IHEX output format is now available in lwlink. At least a first pass version of it.
author William Astle <lost@l-w.ca>
date Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:59:50 -0600
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>Chapter 5. Libraries and LWAR</H1
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>LWTOOLS also includes a tool for managing libraries. These are analogous to
the static libraries created with the "ar" tool on POSIX systems. Each library
file contains one or more object files. The linker will treat the object
files within a library as though they had been specified individually on
the command line except when resolving external references. External references
are looked up first within the object files within the library and then, if
not found, the usual lookup based on the order the files are specified on
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>The tool for creating these libary files is called LWAR.</P
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>The binary for LWAR is called "lwar". Note that the binary is in lower
case. The options lwar understands are listed below. For archive manipulation
options, the first non-option argument is the name of the archive. All other
non-option arguments are the names of files to operate on.</P
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><CODE
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>--add</CODE
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>This option specifies that an archive is going to have files added to it.
If the archive does not already exist, it is created. New files are added
to the end of the archive.</P
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>--create</CODE
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>-c</CODE
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>This option specifies that an archive is going to be created and have files
added to it. If the archive already exists, it is truncated.</P
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>--merge</CODE
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>-m</CODE
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>If specified, any files specified to be added to an archive will be checked
to see if they are archives themselves. If so, their constituent members are
added to the archive. This is useful for avoiding archives containing archives.</P
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>--list</CODE
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>-l</CODE
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>This will display a list of the files contained in the archive.</P
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><CODE
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>--debug</CODE
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>This option increases the debugging level. It is only useful for LWTOOLS
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>This provides a listing of command line options and a brief description
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