I'm trying to build a program that uses the llvm-sys crate which links against libffi. I've added the following to my build.rs:
println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=ffi");
But despite being able to find the library, the linker still fails.
The precise command that rustc is running is:
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However if I move the -lffi to near the start of the command line then linking works!
So my question is: how can I get rustc to generate correct command-line arguments such that it specifies -lffi earlier?
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