Matthew Bauer
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This combines the *.o into a big .o producing one translation unit. This preserve our unused static initializers, as specified in the C++ standard: If no variable or function is odr-used from a given translation unit, the non-local variables defined in that translation unit may never be initialized (this models the behavior of an on-demand dynamic library). Note that this is very similar to how the --whole-archive flag works. One advantage of this is that users of the final .a library don’t have to worry about specifying --whole-archive, or that we have unused static initializers at all!
Nix
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Installation
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$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
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Building And Developing
Building Nix
You can build Nix using one of the targets provided by release.nix:
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.aarch64-linux
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.x86_64-darwin
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.i686-linux
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.x86_64-linux
Development Environment
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$ nix-shell
$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
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