I’m new to using C in Rust and im currently trying to use BFD to build a Binary-Loader.
Using bindgen to generate the Rust bindings worked great.

In my build.rs I’ve used:

println!("cargo:rustc-link-search=native=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/");

and

println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=static=bfd");

This fails with several undefined reference to 'filename_cmp' like errors.

However: When linking dynamically (println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=bfd");) everything works just fine.

What am I missing?

Thanks

I’ve made sure that libbfd.a is present in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/.