Linker Properties (Linux C++)

General

Property	Description	Choices
Output File	The option overrides the default name and location of the program that the linker creates. (-o)
Show Progress	Prints Linker Progress Messages.
Version	The -version option tells the linker to put a version number in the header of the executable.
Enable Verbose Output	The -verbose option tells the linker to output verbose messages for debugging.
Trace	The --trace option tells the linker to output the input files as are processed.
Trace Symbols	Print the list of files in which a symbol appears. (--trace-symbol=symbol)
Print Map	The --print-map option tells the linker to output a link map.
Report Unresolved Symbol References	This option when enabled will report unresolved symbol references.
Optimize For Memory Usage	Optimize for memory usage, by rereading the symbol tables as necessary.
Shared Library Search Path	Allows the user to populate the shared library search path. (-rpath-link=path)
Additional Library Directories	Allows the user to override the environmental library path. (-L folder).
Linker	Specifies the program to invoke during linking, or the path to the linker on the remote system.
Link Timeout	Remote linking timeout, in milliseconds.
Copy Output	Specifies whether to copy the build output file from the remote system to the local machine.

Input

Property	Description	Choices
Ignore Specific Default Libraries	Specifies one or more names of default libraries to ignore. (--exclude-libs lib,lib)
Ignore Default Libraries	Ignore default libraries and only search libraries explicitly specified.
Force Undefined Symbol References	Force symbol to be entered in the output file as an undefined symbol. (-u symbol --undefined=symbol)
Library Dependencies	This option allows specifying additional libraries to be added to the linker command line. The additional library will be added to the end of the linker command line prefixed with 'lib' and end with the '.a' extension. (-lFILE)
Additional Dependencies	Specifies additional items to add to the link command line.

Debugging

Property	Description	Choices
Debugger Symbol Information	Debugger symbol information from the output file.	Include All Omit Debugger Symbol Information Only Omit All Symbol Information
Map File Name	The Map option tells the linker to create a map file with the user specified name. (-Map=)

Advanced

Property	Description	Choices
Mark Variables ReadOnly After Relocation	This option marks variables read-only after relocation.
Enable Immediate Function Binding	This option marks object for immediate function binding.
Do Not Require Executable Stack	This option marks output as not requiring executable stack.
Whole Archive	Whole Archive uses all code from Sources and Additional Dependencies.