Inhibit default library paths with gcc

Question

Is there a way to inhibit the default library path search with gcc? -nostdinc does this for the include path search, but -nostdlib, either by omiss

Answer 1

How about just setting the LIBRARY_PATH environment variable?

If I understand the question correctly, you want to do something like forcing the linker to look at a local library path before the default path, so you can just explicitly set that variable to control the order.

Answer 2

You can try -nodefaultlibs to avoid all the default libraries, then use -L and -l to add-back the libraries you want in the directories you want. Directories specified on the command-line with the -L option should have priority over the default directories.

Answer 3

Supposing the underlying loader is ld you might be able to redirect its whole load path with

--sysroot=directory

(I don't remember the option that you have to use to pass loader arguments to gcc, but there is one...)

You could either have "directory" be something bogus, where no libraries are found, or mimic the directory layout for your own project.

Answer 4

You should be able to do this with spec files (although fiddling with these seems like something of a dark art to me...).

If you look at the output of gcc -dumpspecs, the link_command spec is the one that builds the actual command that is invoked. Digging through some of the other specs it references, the link_libgcc spec, which is usually defined (for native compilers at least) as:

*link_libgcc:
%D

is the culprit:

%D

Dump out a -L option for each directory that GCC believes might contain startup files. If the target supports multilibs then the current multilib directory will be prepended to each of these paths.

You can override it by creating a file (e.g. my.specs) which substitutes paths of your choice:

*link_libgcc:
-L/foo/bar -L/blah/blah

and then passing -specs=my.specs to gcc.