Added "How do I use a library before declaring it?" in the FAQ.

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Volker Weißmann 4 years ago committed by Jussi Pakkanen
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@ -533,3 +533,20 @@ development but are not compiled in release builds. Note that (since
Meson 0.57.0) you can set optimization to, say, 2 in your debug builds
if you want to. If you tried to set this flag based on optimization
level, it would fail in this case.
## How do I use a library before declaring it?
This is valid (and good) code:
```
libA = library('libA', 'fileA.cpp', link_with : [])
libB = library('libB', 'fileB.cpp', link_with : [libA])
```
But there is currently no way to get something like this to work:
```
libB = library('libB', 'fileB.cpp', link_with : [libA])
libA = library('libA', 'fileA.cpp', link_with : [])
```
This means that you HAVE to write your `library(...)` calls in the order that the
dependencies flow. While ideas to make arbitrary orders possible exist, they were
rejected because reordering the `library(...)` calls was considered the "proper"
way. See [here](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8178) for the discussion.
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