Chris Miller wrote: > I have created a shared lib and want to make sure I only export those > symbols that should be accessible from external. > I manage to do that fine with "#pragma GCC visibility" switches for all > my "own" symbols. > However my lib also statically links OpenSSL and the linker exports all > symbols in libssl too. > > That is a problem because it creates a symbol collision - so how can I > keep the linker from also exporting the symbols of libs (*.a) statically > linked to my shared lib? You'll need to write a linker script. There are plenty of examples around, some even in the gcc sources, or you can ask the binutils list. Andrew.