[fpc-devel] link search order

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Vittorio Giovara said:
> I'm using fpc and trying to link it with a library, let's call it libfoo
> version 2.
> 
> The problem I'm facing is that many people have libfoo 1.0 installed and
> that when linking, fpc takes libfoo 1.0 instead of the new libfoo 2.0. Of
> course this causes a link failure as I need many libfoo version 2 functions.
> 
> I set the right library search path but the system search path gets always
> picked first (confirmed by looking at link.res).
> Is there a way to force the order of search path (possibly without
> modifying fpc.cfg or playing with linker flags)?

Pass -Xd and then your own list of libraries with various -Fl?

Without -Xd some defaults are emitted first.