From 9bbbaa6e3996244b90e0bce4656f44ed821dedee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vyPal <66716025+vyPal@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 11:39:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add option to compile to obj file

---
 example/src/use_externally.cffc |  8 ++++++++
 src/build.go                    | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 example/src/use_externally.cffc

diff --git a/example/src/use_externally.cffc b/example/src/use_externally.cffc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7cdc26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/src/use_externally.cffc
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package external;
+
+extern vararg func printf(fmt: *i8): i32;
+
+export func testing(): i64 {
+  printf("Hello, World!\n");
+  return 0;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/build.go b/src/build.go
index b717113..faeaeca 100644
--- a/src/build.go
+++ b/src/build.go
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ func init() {
 				Usage:   "Save additional build files for debugging. ",
 				Aliases: []string{"d"},
 			},
+			&cli.BoolFlag{
+				Name:  "obj",
+				Usage: "Compile to an object file instead of an executable. ",
+			},
 		},
 		Action: build,
 	},
@@ -156,7 +160,12 @@ func build(c *cli.Context) error {
 
 	var stderr bytes.Buffer
 
-	args := append([]string{"clang", llData}, imports...)
+	extra := ""
+	if c.Bool("obj") {
+		extra = "-c"
+	}
+
+	args := append([]string{"clang", extra, llData}, imports...)
 	args = append(args, "-o", outName)
 	cmd := exec.Command(args[0], args[1:]...)