Yves Arrouye writes: > I'm building a .so file for a package, which uses a library I would like > to link statically in the .so file. I currently use something like > > cc -shared *.o /usr/lib/libsomelib.a -o name.so > > Is there a shorter way? If I use -static -lsomelib it does not work...
You can sprinkle '-Wl,-Bstatic' and '-Wl,-Bdynamic' into you link command line to force following libraries to be static or shared. However, you really don't want to link one library that isn't compiled with -fpic staticly into another shared library. Doing so will result in a very memory inefficient library because the required fixups will dirty most of the pages at load time. > On the other hand, when I build without needing to statically link, I do > > cc -shared *.o -lsomelib -o name.so > > I think the -lsomelib is not useful since there's no link phase. Can I > remove it? Yes, but leaving it in is usally a good thing. The reason is that it makes it obvious which other libraries are needed and less likely a user will link with the wrong library. David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
