On 2 Oct, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:53:04 +0200 (CEST) > Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > > Hello Helmut, > >> I want to create a shared library, say libULIB.so, >> which needs additional shared libraries, e.g. libmpfr.so and >> libgmp.so . >> >> My users only use the functions provided by libULIB.so. >> >> Is there a means to "prelink" libULIB.so, so that the libraries >> libmpfr.so and libgmp.so are not needed by the user? > > You should be able to just provide the libraries to the linker when > linking your shared object. When *running* the application, your shared > object (i.e. the loader) should transitively pull in the libs on which > yours depends. You can check those dependencies using ldd <your-lib>. > > Hope this helps, > Patric
Thanks Patric, but unfortunately that's not what I want. In this case, these "secondary" libraries (e.g. libmpfr.so and libgmp.so) have to be present on the target machines together with an 'rpath' if they are in non-standard directories. My aim was to let the linker generate a big library which obseletes the secondary libraries. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
