Static transitive dependencies

Development
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If we have a library dependency tree A depends on B depends on C (but A does not directly depend on C), from what I can tell the following is true:

  1. when building shared libraries, it is enough to specify -lB when compiling A
  2. when building static libraries, one must specify -lB -lC (in that order) when compiling A.

This seems to be causing problems for me when building packages using pkgsStatic, since the Make, CMake, meson, etc. files of these projects don’t specify all transitive dependencies. It’s not causing problems in all cases though, which is even weirder.

Am I understanding the situation correctly? Is there a solution besides adding NIX_LDFLAGS = [ "-lC" ]; manually for the transitive dependencies?

It may be relevant that I’m also cross-compiling to windows

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Well, it turns out this has nothing to do with Nix, and everything to do with SDL2_mixer having a bad pkgconfig file.