Don't really do much C++ (actually, only used it to help convert someone's code
which originally ran on MS Windows to also work on Solaris), so that's probably
why I've never had problems.
Adam
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>It's really strange. For 3 last years I use 'g++ -shared' for creating shared
libraries
>in solaris. That's is especially important if you have templates.
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>Lev Assinovsky
>Quest Software, Inc.
>O&S Core Division, Team Leader
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Stein [mailto:adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:00 PM
>To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx; jan@xxxxxxxxxxx; Lev Assinovsky
>Subject: RE: I want to build a library rather than an executable
>
>
>I've never had any luck using gcc to create a shared library. It never seemed
>to work for me (maybe I was just doing it wrong). Using ld has always worked
>fine. This has always been on Solaris. I use gcc/g++ for linking a standalone
>program linking to the shared library and that takes care of libstdc++ and
>libgcc.
>
> Adam
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>
>>I don't think using ld directly is a good idea.
>>In that case you should to take care about libstdc++, libgcc at least.
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>>Lev Assinovsky
>>Quest Software, Inc.
>>O&S Core Division, Team Leader
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
>>Behalf Of Adam Stein
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:29 PM
>>To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx; jan@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: I want to build a library rather than an executable
>>
>>
>>>I am currently porting an existing application from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris
>>>2.9 and switching to the GNU compiler 3.4.1 as well!! (previously used the
>>>Sun compiler)
>>
>>To create a shared library, I do something like:
>>
>> ld -G -o mylib.so obj1.o obj2.o
>>
>>For a static library, I do something like:
>>
>> ar cr mylib.a `lorder obj1.o obj2.o | tsort`
>>
>>You can replace the names with variables in a Makefile as you would with
>>anything else. These lines are the ones that create the final library file.
>>You, of course, have to compile your C++ files into object files as normal
>(i.e.
>>g++ -c -o obj1.o obj1.cpp).
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>> Adam Stein
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>>here have been proved to be my own. [http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/]
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