RE: I want to build a library rather than an executable

[Adam Stein <adam at scan dot mc dot xerox dot com>]

Don't really do much C++ (actually, only used it to help convert someone's code 
which originally ran on MS Windows to also work on Solaris), so that's probably 
why I've never had problems.

                                                Adam
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>It's really strange. For 3 last years I use 'g++ -shared' for creating shared 
libraries
>in solaris. That's is especially important if you have templates.
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>Lev Assinovsky
>Quest Software, Inc.
>O&S Core Division, Team Leader
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Stein [mailto:adam@scan.mc.xerox.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:00 PM
>To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; jan@thertdc.com; Lev Assinovsky
>Subject: RE: I want to build a library rather than an executable
>
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>I've never had any luck using gcc to create a shared library.  It never seemed 
>to work for me (maybe I was just doing it wrong).  Using ld has always worked 
>fine.  This has always been on Solaris.  I use gcc/g++ for linking a standalone 
>program linking to the shared library and that takes care of libstdc++ and 
>libgcc.
>
>                                                Adam
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>Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation       Email: adam@scan.mc.xerox.com
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>Disclaimer: All views expressed             
>here have been proved to be my own.  [http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/]
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>>I don't think using ld directly is a good idea.
>>In that case you should to take care about libstdc++, libgcc at least.
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>>Lev Assinovsky
>>Quest Software, Inc.
>>O&S Core Division, Team Leader
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On
>>Behalf Of Adam Stein
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:29 PM
>>To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; jan@thertdc.com
>>Subject: Re: I want to build a library rather than an executable
>>
>>
>>>I am currently porting an existing application from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris
>>>2.9 and switching to the GNU compiler 3.4.1 as well!! (previously used the
>>>Sun compiler)
>>
>>To create a shared library, I do something like:
>>
>>	ld -G -o mylib.so obj1.o obj2.o
>>	
>>For a static library, I do something like:
>>
>>	ar cr mylib.a `lorder obj1.o obj2.o | tsort`
>>	
>>You can replace the names with variables in a Makefile as you would with 
>>anything else.  These lines are the ones that create the final library file.  
>>You, of course, have to compile your C++ files into object files as normal 
>(i.e. 
>>g++ -c -o obj1.o obj1.cpp).
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>                                                Adam Stein
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>>Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation       Email: adam@scan.mc.xerox.com
>>                                            
>>Disclaimer: All views expressed             
>>here have been proved to be my own.  [http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/]
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