After a lot of work I have at least realized how merging in one
only big ball (libvlc.so... 50MB unstripped ;-) all Videolan's
shared libs (I need this for a java project).
Nevertheless my current solution is not handy and I guess it
could give me much trouble in the future.
So my question is... Is there a better approach than mine ?
At present I do compile the library for an Athlon 64 with :
gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libvlc -o libvlc.so -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition \
vlc/src/input/.libs/libvlc_la-item.o \
vlc/src/input/.libs/libvlc_la-access.o \
... \
-Wl,--whole-archive \
(other libs to include) \
-Wl,--no-whole-archive \
-L/lib64 \
-lc \
...
-L/usr/lib64 \
-lX11 \
...
but, as I said, it's not handy (indeed), since you need to list each
vlc objects (and they are a lot...) depending on the order of symbols
definition.
I can't copy all objects in a separate directory to do :
gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libvlc -o libvlc.so -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition \
objs/*.o
as only the first symbol definition will be inserted by the linker in the final lib,
and this could be just a symbol declaration or a use of it, not the real symbol
definition, leading at run-time to "libvlc.so: undefined symbol".
Probably I missed or misunderstood something...
Thanks in advance for any hints...
Lucio
