Re: linking a .so with libgcj.a ?

[Andi Vajda <andi at osafoundation dot org>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Andrew Haley wrote:

> Basically.  But the capabilities of linkers varies widely between
> systems, even when the linkers are all variants of GNU ld.
>
> > Or did the person behind the Mingw tool chain
> > do something special ? If it is smart enough to produce something
> > that works on Windows, wouldn't the same apply on Linux ?
>
> Probably.  But to be sure I'd have to try it.

I'm willing to give it a try myself, is it enough to just force CCFLAGS to 
contain -fPIC when building libgcj.a ?

> It may well be that your problem has nothing to do with PIC, but it's
> worth fixing that first.  As has been pointed out in this thread,
> there are other potential problems.

Yes, dynamically loading classes was mentionned. I don't do that, neither does 
the Java Lucene codebase which I'm compiling in.
Libgcj may do this too but I haven't hit a class load error on Windows yet 
where the python extension DLL is statically linked with libgcj.a and about 
6 Mb in size. The project is a year old now, so I guess/hope dynamically 
loading classes is not a required feature in this case.

Andi..