-B{static|dynamic}

Prefer dynamic or require static library linking.

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No space is allowed between -B and dynamic or static. The default, without -B specified, is -Bdynamic.

• -Bdynamic: Prefer dynamic linking (try for shared libraries).

• -Bstatic: Require static linking (no shared libraries).

Also note:

• If you specify static, but the linker finds only a dynamic library, then the library is not linked with a warning that the "library was not found."

• If you specify dynamic, but the linker finds only a static version, then that library is linked, with no warning.

You can toggle -Bstatic and -Bdynamic on the command line. That is, you can link some libraries statically and some dynamically by specifying -Bstatic and -Bdynamic any number of times on the command line, as follows:

f77 prog.f -Bdynamic -lwells -Bstatic -lsurface

These are loader and linker options. Compiling and linking in separate steps with -Bx on the compile command will require it in the link step as well.

You cannot specify both -Bdynamic and -dn on the command line because -dn disables linking of dynamic libraries.

In a 64-bit Solaris environment, many system libraries are available only as shared dynamic libraries. These include libm.so and libc.so (libm.a and libc.a are not provided). This means that -Bstatic and -dn may cause linking errors in 64-bit Solaris environments. Applications must link with the dynamic libraries in these cases.

See the Fortran Programming Guide for more information on static and dynamic libraries.