How to specify links order?

[Jarod42]

For non-msvc compilers (gcc/clang), order of links might be important:
if A depends on B which depends on C
we should have something like:

gcc -o A.exe src_A.o -lB -lC

(several entries is even allowed for cycle).

In premake, we have 3 kinds of link options:

• links("project")
• links("external_lib")
• linkoptions("extra option")

I don't find a way to order links against linkoptions.
Generators use one block after the others, (and no order is more correct than the other BTW).

I have basically

project "my_project_using_llvm"
  kind "StaticLib"
  -- ...
project "app"
  links("my_project_using_llvm")
  linkoptions { "$(shell llvm-config some_args)" }

Using either gmake2/codelite action, the link fails.

As work around, I end up with ugly:

project "my_project_using_llvm"
  kind "StaticLib"
  -- ...
project "app"
  links("my_project_using_llvm") -- To keep dependency, and duplicate in linkoptions in expected order
  filter { "system:windows" }
    linkoptions{path.join("%{cfg.targetdir}", "my_project_using_llvm.lib")}
  filter { "system:not windows" }
    linkoptions{path.join("%{cfg.targetdir}", "libmy_project_using_llvm.a")}
  filter {}

  linkoptions { "$(shell llvm-config some_args)" }

Is there currently a better way?

[samsinsane]

Using linkgroups is intended to bypass the ordering issue.

[Jarod42]

linkgroups only applies to links.
So it doesn't resolve the issues with linkoptions. I try to add also Wl, --start-group/Wl, --end-group for linksoptions, but issue is between groups, not inside them...