Welcome to the Premake 5 User Guide!

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For macOS and Linux

Define a new linkmode API to select how sibling shared libraries should be linked and how to set

• linkmode "Default": Use RPATH (the new default behavior)
• linkmode "System": Use -l/-L (same as RelativeLinks flags)
• linkmode "Absolute": links using shared library full path

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