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linux - Why does order in which input libraries are specified matter?

I'm quite new to programming for Linux. You could say I'm a Windows guy. So, I was porting my project to Linux, and it almost made me insane: I'm sure I have specified all the dependencies with -l flag, and yet I'm getting "unresolved symbol" errors. Then I've found this topic, and it solved my problem: Boost linking on Linux with GCC

Could someone please explain me why does the order matter, and how exactly it matters? I'm pretty sure it is not the case with MSVC linker...

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From "An Introduction to GCC - for the GNU compilers gcc and g++"

The traditional behavior of linkers is to search for external functions from left to right in the libraries specified on the command line. This means that a library containing the definition of a function should appear after any source files or object files which use it.

I believe that msvc linkers do 2 passes over the code so they might be able to resolve the symbols even when the libraries are specified in different order (reference missing ...)


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