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>Chapter 4. LWLINK</H1
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>The LWTOOLS linker is called LWLINK. This chapter documents the various features
of the linker.</P
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>4.1. Command Line Options</A
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>The binary for LWLINK is called "lwlink". Note that the binary is in lower
case. lwlink takes the following command line arguments.</P
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><CODE
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>--decb</CODE
>, <CODE
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>-b</CODE
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>Selects the DECB output format target. This is equivalent to <CODE
CLASS="OPTION"
>--format=decb</CODE
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><CODE
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>--output=FILE</CODE
>, <CODE
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>This option specifies the name of the output file. If not specified, the
default is <CODE
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>a.out</CODE
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><CODE
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>--format=TYPE</CODE
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>This option specifies the output format. Valid values are <CODE
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>decb</CODE
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>--raw</CODE
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>This option specifies the raw output format.
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>--format=raw</CODE
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and <CODE
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>-f raw</CODE
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><CODE
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>--script=FILE</CODE
>, <CODE
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>-s</CODE
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><DD
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>This option allows specifying a linking script to override the linker's
built in defaults.</P
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>--section-base=SECT=BASE</CODE
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>Cause section SECT to load at base address BASE. This will be prepended
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><CODE
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>--map=FILE</CODE
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>-m FILE</CODE
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>This will output a description of the link result to FILE.</P
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><CODE
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>--library=LIBSPEC</CODE
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>-l LIBSPEC</CODE
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>Load a library using the library search path. LIBSPEC will have "lib" prepended
and ".a" appended.</P
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><CODE
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>--library-path=DIR</CODE
>, <CODE
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>-L DIR</CODE
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><DD
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>Add DIR to the library search path.</P
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><DT
><CODE
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>--debug</CODE
>, <CODE
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>-d</CODE
></DT
><DD
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>This option increases the debugging level. It is only useful for LWTOOLS
developers.</P
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><CODE
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>--help</CODE
>, <CODE
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>-?</CODE
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>This provides a listing of command line options and a brief description
of each.</P
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>This will display a usage summary
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>--version</CODE
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>This will display the version of LWLINK.</P
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