Is there a proper way to embed another library(static or dynamic) inside a static library?
Use-case:
We have two libraries A and B. "A" is a static library and "B" is a dependency which needs to be exposed only to A. Our goal is to provide a final packaged "A" static lib, with "B" embedded within it.
Look at man ar. You can extract your .a files, and then merge them back to a single .a file.
So this is possible for static libraries, but not possible for dynamic libraries, unless you have source files, so you can actually re-compile them as a single target.