Adding external static libraries to whole-archive group

[jasal82]

Let's suppose I have a static library generated by some external build process and set up as an imported target that I want to link into my Zephyr app. However, I need it to go into the -Wl,--whole-archive group that also contains the libapp.a. How would I do this?

[jasal82]

A follow-up question would be how to attach libraries at different positions in the linker command line, e.g. before the whole-archive group, in the group, after the group, etc and how to ensure that the link order is compatible with the link dependencies of the (external) library target.

[merethan]

I have the same question.

My reason for running into this, is whatever I make using SHELL_CMD_REGISTER() getting dropped from the final output, because there's no references to this stuff. Which causes my custom commands to not appear in the shell.