Hi!
I am using GCC 3.2 on HP-UX 11.0 (PARISC 1.1).
I am trying to compile openssl 0.9.8a as a shared library, and looks
like gcc is not able to create a shared library from the successfully
compiled archive library, while ld linker succeeds. All object files in
archive are compiled with -fPIC flag, so this is possible.
the "gcc way" of creating a shared library from archive library is:
$ gcc -fPIC -shared -Wl,-Fl,libcrypto.a -o libcrypto.sl
shared library libcrypto.sl *is* created, however, it does not contain
any symbols from any object file in libcrypto.a (note the small size of
libcrypto.sl):
$ ll libcrypto.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 2622848 Apr 4 10:58 libcrypto.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 12288 Apr 4 19:35 libcrypto.sl
If I do it using directly linker ld, everything is OK:
$ ld -b -Fl libcrypto.a -o libcrypto.sl
$ ll libcrypto.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 2622848 Apr 4 10:58 libcrypto.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 2535424 Apr 4 19:35 libcrypto.sl
I allways thought that GCC just uses external linker binary for linking,
and passes the parameters to it, however I am starting to believe that
it is not so simple in this case.
Can anyone explain why gcc fails to create a shared library? *Any*
opinion is welcome.
Donatas Vyzas
