"Marcus Carey" <marcuscarey@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have an application that uses the Mysql C-API and another library. > > The application is on a remote host and I must compile it using the > -shared flag to use the Mysql C-API. > > My problem is I need to use the static version of the second library. > > Is it possible to compile an application with gcc that uses both > shared and static libraries? I'm not sure I really understand your question. If you need to use the -shared flag, that implies that the MySQL C-API does a dlopen of a shared library which you provide. That is possible but it doesn't seem very likely to me. In any case, if you have a static library, and you need to link it into a shared library, and the static library was not compiled with -fPIC, then you are in trouble on some platforms. On x86_64 in particular, you can not link code compiled without -fPIC into a shared library. So if that is your platform, you need to recompile the static library with -fPIC. And compiling with -fPIC will be advisable on any platform for code which goes into a shared library. Ian
