I need to be able to use functionality from two static libraries which have been built under different build configurations. This is for backwards compatibility reasons. The problem is, during the linking process the library symbols conflict and the linker will just choose one over the other at random.
Is there anyway to get around this issue?
Thanks.
Short answer: no.
Longer answer: yes, if you're on a platform supporting weak symbols and one of the libraries has marked the symbol as weak and the other hasn't.
Final answer: this is an old, old problem. The language-level workaround is to properly namespace symbols. The linker-level workaround is either weak symbols or linker maps or both. The simple solution is to have access to the source and fix it.
Last ditch hack, if Bregma's suggestions are not usable: statically link one of the libraries to a dynamically linked wrapper library which aliases the offending symbols.
