Hi Eljay, I didnt want to put code which uses the shared lib itself inside it, anyway, but yes it would work, you just need to use -dy instead of -G in ld (-G overrides -dy and makes non-executable .so) ie., ld -o libexpm.so exp1.o exp2.o exp3.o libuseso.o -dy -ldl -lc Thanks & regards, Pradyuman. -----Original Message----- From: Eljay Love-Jensen [mailto:eljay@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 5:47 PM To: Singh Pradyuman-R50282; 'Paolo Massimino'; gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Executable shared object Hi Pradyuman, That doesn't quite do what Paolo is asking for. Why not just put libuseso.c directly in the libexpm.so file (that would do what Paolo wants)? gcc -fPIC -c exp1.c exp2.c exp3.c libuseso.c ld -G -o libexpm.so exp1.o exp2.o exp3.o libuseso.o -dy -ldl -lc Then the problem becomes "Hey, that doesn't work!" --Eljay
