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<!doctype linuxdoc system>
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<article>
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<title>ar65 Users Guide
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<author><url url="mailto:uz@cc65.org" name="Ullrich von Bassewitz">
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<abstract>
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ar65 is an archiver for object files generated by ca65. It allows to create
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archives, add or remove modules from archives, and to extract modules from
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existing archives.
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</abstract>
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<toc>
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<sect>Overview<p>
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ar65 is a replacement for the libr65 archiver that was part of the cc65 C
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compiler suite developed by John R. Dunning. libr65 had some problems and
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the copyright does not permit some things which I wanted to be possible,
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so I decided to write a completely new assembler/linker/archiver suite
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for the cc65 compiler. ar65 is part of this suite.
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<sect>Usage<p>
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The archiver is called as follows:
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<tscreen><verb>
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Usage: ar65 <operation ...> lib file|module ...
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Operations are some of:
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r Add modules
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d Delete modules
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t List library table
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v Increase verbosity (put before other operation)
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x Extract modules
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V Print the archiver version
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</verb></tscreen>
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You may add modules to a library using the <tt/'r'/ command ('a' is deprecated). If the library
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does not exist, it is created (and a warning message is printed which you
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may ignore if creation of the library was your intention). You may
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specify any number of modules on the command line following the library.
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If a module with the same name exists in the library, it is replaced by
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the new one. The archiver prints a warning, if the module in the library
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has a newer timestamp than the one to add.
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Here's an example:
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<tscreen><verb>
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ar65 r mysubs.lib sub1.o sub2.o
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</verb></tscreen>
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This will add two modules to the library 'mysubs.lib' creating the
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library if necessary. If the library contains modules named sub1.o or
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sub2.o, they are replaced by the new ones.
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Modules names in the library are stored without the path, so, using
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<tscreen><verb>
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ar65 v v r mysubs.lib ofiles/sub1.o ofiles/sub2.o
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</verb></tscreen>
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will verbose add two modules named 'sub1.o' and 'sub2.o' to the library.
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Deleting modules from a library is done with the <tt/'d'/ command. You may not
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give a path when naming the modules.
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Example:
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<tscreen><verb>
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ar65 d mysubs.lib sub1.o
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</verb></tscreen>
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This will delete the module named 'sub1.o' from the library, printing an
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error if the library does not contain that module.
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The <tt/'t'/ command prints a table of all modules in the library ('l' is deprecated).
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Any module names on the command line are ignored.
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Example:
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<tscreen><verb>
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ar65 tv mysubs.lib
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</verb></tscreen>
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Using the <tt/'x'/ command, you may extract modules from the library. The
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modules named on the command line are extracted from the library and put
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into the current directory.
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Note: Because of the indexing done by the archiver, the modules may have
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a changed binary layout, that is, a binary compare with the old module
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(before importing it into the library) may yield differences. The
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extracted modules are accepted by the linker and archiver, however, so
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this is not a problem.
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Example for extracting a module from the library:
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<tscreen><verb>
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ar65 x mysubs.lib sub1.o
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</verb></tscreen>
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The <tt/'V'/ command prints the version number of the assembler. If you send
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any suggestions or bugfixes, please include your version number.
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In addition to these operations, the archiver will check for, and warn
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about duplicate external symbols in the library, every time when an
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operation does update the library. This is only a warning, the linker
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will ignore one of the duplicate symbols (which one is unspecified).
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<sect>Copyright<p>
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ar65 (and all cc65 binutils) are (C) Copyright 1998-2000 Ullrich von
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Bassewitz. For usage of the binaries and/or sources the following conditions
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do apply:
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This software is provided 'as-is', without any expressed or implied
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warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
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arising from the use of this software.
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Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
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including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
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freely, subject to the following restrictions:
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<enum>
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<item> The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
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claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
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in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
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appreciated but is not required.
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<item> Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not
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be misrepresented as being the original software.
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<item> This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
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distribution.
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</enum>
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</article>
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