Re: g++ -ldl

["Jeremy Sheldon" <jeremy_sheldon at hotmail dot com>]

> From: David Sveningsson <david.sveningsson@telia.com>
> To: Jeremy Sheldon <jeremy_sheldon@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: g++ -ldl
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:01:56 +0200
>
> Jeremy Sheldon wrote:
> > would someone please point me to the correct place to find information
> > on what the -ldl option would do for g++ ?  I've looked at the gcc man
> > page and browsed google for a while and can't find much information on
> > it.  I have a situation where using it clears up a few "undefined
> > reference to `dlopen'" errors and would like to understand why.
> The -l flag specifies a library to link against. In this case you are
> linking with the library dl, which is if I recall correctly a library to
> handle dynamic libraries in you application. At least dl contains dlsym,
> dlopen, dlclose etc.

Thank you Mr. Sveningsson.  This is exactly the information for which I was 
hunting.

> You should be able to find out information about the dl library using these
> commands:
> man dlopen
> man dlclose
> man dlsym
> man dlerror
>
> HTH,
> --Eljay

Eljay, I had been in that manual and, sure enough, way down at the bottom in 
the "example" section the -ldl option is on the "how to compile the example" 
line.  It was one of the things that caused me to believe that it was, in 
fact, the correct way to compile my code.  However, it isn't explained at 
all and I still questioned exactly what it did.

Much Thanks to both of you who responded!

sheldon