-weak_framework linker arg not recognized by i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2

Question

I am trying to weak-link to the Security framework in Mac OS X (10.8.2, Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.1). It appears that the linker is simply not recognizing the '-weak_framework' tag.

This is the linker error I get -

[cc] Starting link
[cc] i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: Security: No such file or directory

What I found interesting (and hence the reason I believe the '-weak_framework' tag isn't recognized), is that when I change '-weak_framework' to '-thisisgarbage', I still get the same error.

I am running an Ant build script, so this is what's in there -

<linkerarg value="-weak_framework" />
<linkerarg value="Security" />

Any input is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

That command line option is actually for ld (see manpage), not gcc. You can pass ld command line options via gcc using the -Wl, flag; so I would expect your <linkerarg> to look like this:

<linkerarg value="-Wl,-weak_framework,Security" />

But you might have to mess about with the quotes to get that quite right...