How do static libraries do linking to dependencies?

Question

Say I have libA. It depends on, for example, libSomething for the simple fact that a non-inline method of libA makes a call to a method in libSomething.h. How does the depen

Answer 1

Static linking is just copying the whole items (functions, constants, etc) into the resulting executable. If a static library's code contains references to some shared library items, these references will become dependencies in the resulting executable. The same holds if you link a library instead of executable.

This thread discusses how it happens in Linux.