RE: A simple problem regarding shared libs...

["Venkatakrishnan, V" <V.Venkatakrishnan@channels.usa.xerox.com>]

Hi,
	I created a static library file out of the same shrobj.o by saying
Ar rv libstatic.a shrobj.o
	and then linked that to my program saying
Gcc hello.o -L. -lstatic -o Hello
	and it worked.
	Looks like there's something fishy 'bout my LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Any
idea anybody?

Regards,
Venky

-----Original Message-----
From: Venkatakrishnan, V [mailto:V.Venkatakrishnan@channels.usa.xerox.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:20 PM
To: 'John Love-Jensen'; gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: RE: A simple problem regarding shared libs...


Hi Eljay,
	Hmmmm, I did echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and I didn't get anything (just
got my # prompt back) and then did set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
did echo again and didn't get anything, could it mean that my variable is
not set?
	I tried gcc hello.o -L. -lshared -o Hello again after that but got
the same error message.

Regards,
Venky

-----Original Message-----
From: John Love-Jensen [mailto:eljay@adobe.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:49 PM
To: Venkatakrishnan, V; gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: A simple problem regarding shared libs...


Hi V,

Have you set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Sincerely,
--Eljay



Hi,
	I've these two files.....

Hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
Extern const char* func();
Int main( void)
{
	printf("Hello World");
	func()
	return 1;
}

Shrobj.c
Const char* func(void)
{
	printf("Hello from shared lib");
}

	I do the following to create the obj files..
Gcc -c hello.c
Gcc -c shrobj.c
	and then to create the shared lib I do
Gcc shrobj.o -shared -o libshared.so
	this gives me the shared lib.

	Now I try to compile my program hello.o with this shared lib by
saying Gcc hello.o -L. -lshared -o Hello
	but this gives me an error saying.....
Ld: 0706-006 Cannot find or open library file: -l shared
	ld:open(): A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
Collect2: ld returned 255 exit status

	Why is this happening?  My shared lib. Is right there and I've also
given -L. to look for it in the current directory.
	Any help please.

Regards,