From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: eoin <eoin.mcquillan@btinternet.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc the gnu linker and the -z extract option
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488D84EA.2060003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18635245.post@talk.nabble.com>
eoin wrote:
> I'm a new poster here. I am porting some Solaris code over to Linux and
> using the GNU compiler and linker. Now I have a "meta library"(creating a
> "master" shared object from mayny shared objects) which creates fine in
> Solaris but in Linux it doesn't create as a meta library - ldd suggests that
> it depends on the libraries which were previously used to produce the meta
> library on solaris.
What should be in this meta library? Is it all the contents of all the libraries?
> Looking into this I can see that with every .so we effectively lose the
> identity and so with a metalibrary what we need to do is to "unravel" the
> .sos to produce the meta library.
"Lose the idenitity?" I don't know what you mean.
> I do this in Solaris using the -z extract option. I can't see how to do
> this in Linux using the GNU linker.
Compile every .o file with -fpic. Make them all into archives with ar.
Link all the archives together into a .so.
Andrew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 16:58 eoin
2008-07-28 9:39 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2008-07-31 17:15 ` eoin
2008-07-31 22:15 ` Andrew Haley
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