Mayank Kaushik <mayank.utexas@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Worked fine when I tried it. I built your source code using
>>
>> gcc -fPIE -pie -o foo.so foo.c -rdynamic
>
> Thanks, it indeed does. I had to leave out -fPIC. I'm curious, why did
> that cause a problem?
I don't know. It works for me when I use -fPIC. There is no particular
reason to specify both -fPIC and -fPIE.
> Last question; is the first method expected to also work on Mac, with
> the linker replaced by the appropriate linker for Mac, if I'm using
> gcc et al to build? I.e.:
>
> const char my_interp[] __attribute__((section(".interp"))) = "<dyld path>";
>
> (...)
>
> gcc -Wall -fPIC -shared -o library.so test.c -lc -Wl,-e,my_main
>
> In other words, does gcc on Mac support executable shared libraries?
I have no idea, sorry. It's not a matter of whether gcc supports it;
it's whether the Mach-O supports it.
Ian
