On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:35:19 -0500 "Serdiouk, Eugene" wrote:

I am just getting my feet wet with C. I have a few object files that I want to convert into a shared library (.so file). Is that as easy as using the right gcc switch, or is it more involved? If the latter, where can I learn how to do it? I have not done that with GCC, but I have done it with individual object files as well as libraries on other Unixes. The linker command option is -shared. ld -shared -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

For future mails, please use a fixed line length of no more than approx. 75 chars. This makes things easier for all. "Serdiouk, Eugene" [11 Jun 2003 10:35:19 -0500]:

I am just getting my feet wet with C. I have a few object files that I want to convert into a shared library (.so file). Is that as easy as using the right gcc switch, or is it more involved? If the latter, where can I learn how to do it?

Creating a shared library on an ELF system like linux is really easy: - Compile all objects with -fPIC added to the compiler cmdline. - Create a shared library: gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,<soname for library> -o lib<name> <library objects> Replacing in the <> tags with the wanted values. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de SuSE Linux AG private: philipp.thomas@t-link.de