eoin wrote: > I'm a new poster here. I am porting some Solaris code over to Linux and > using the GNU compiler and linker. Now I have a "meta library"(creating a > "master" shared object from mayny shared objects) which creates fine in > Solaris but in Linux it doesn't create as a meta library - ldd suggests that > it depends on the libraries which were previously used to produce the meta > library on solaris. What should be in this meta library? Is it all the contents of all the libraries? > Looking into this I can see that with every .so we effectively lose the > identity and so with a metalibrary what we need to do is to "unravel" the > .sos to produce the meta library. "Lose the idenitity?" I don't know what you mean. > I do this in Solaris using the -z extract option. I can't see how to do > this in Linux using the GNU linker. Compile every .o file with -fpic. Make them all into archives with ar. Link all the archives together into a .so. Andrew.
