dlsym() fails with an executable shared library

[Mayank Kaushik <mayank dot utexas at gmail dot com>]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to build an executable shared library. I googled
extensively, and found two possible ways, but both have problems.

(1) The first was what's suggested by this very old thread:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2003-07/msg00232.html

Library code: (The common caller code is at the end of the mail)

const char my_interp[] __attribute__((section(".interp"))) =
"/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2";

void my_func(int x)
{
??? fprintf(stderr, "Inside %s: %d\n", __FUNCTION__, x);
}

void my_main(int argc, char **argv)
{
??? int i;

??? printf("argc: %d\n", argc);

??? for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
??????? printf(" %s", argv[i]);

??? printf("\n");

??? exit(0);
}

gcc -Wall -W -fPIC -shared -o library.so test.c -lc -Wl,-e,my_main

This almost works fully, but argc and argv[0] are inaccessible when
the shared library is run (the original poster also reported this, and
I saw the same), which is a deal-breaker.
$ ./library.so 1 2
argc: 0

(2) The second method is from these two sources:

http://marklodato.github.com/
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-10/msg00088.html

Library code:

void my_func(int x)
{
    fprintf(stderr, "Inside %s: %d\n", __FUNCTION__, x);
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int i;

    printf("argc: %d\n", argc);

    for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
        printf(" %s", argv[i]);

    printf("\n");

    exit(0);
}

gcc -fPIC -fPIE -pie -o library.so test.c

This can read arguments fine, but dlsym() fails:

./library.so: undefined symbol: my_func

I'd appreciate help in getting this to work.

Thanks in advance,
Mayank

========================

Here's the caller code:

int main(void) {
??? void *handle;
??? void (*func)(int x);
??? char *error;

??? handle = dlopen("./library.so", RTLD_NOW);
??? if (NULL == handle) {
??????? fprintf(stderr, "** could not dlopen\n");
??????? exit(1);
??? }

??? dlerror();

???? *(void **) (&func) = dlsym(handle, "my_func");

??? if ((error = dlerror()) != NULL)? {
??????? fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", error);
??????? exit(1);
??? }

??? func(1);

??? return 0;
}