Re: how to reference a lib*.so instead of using -I blat.jar

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Heitzso writes:

 >   My assumption is I should be able to not use -I and instead pick
 > up the -ljsapi somehow to inform gcj re how the missing classes
 > would look.

When you compile a file using gcj, there are three stages:

  .class -> .s  (the compiler)
  .s -> .o (the assembler)
  .o -> .so (the linker)

-I tells the compiler where to look.

-l tells the linker where to look.

>    gcj $GCJ_FLAGS \
>        -I /opt/IBMJava2-142/jre/lib/graphics.jar  \
>        -I ~/tts/freetts/lib/cmulex.jar \
>        -I ~/tts/freetts/lib/en_us.jar \
>        -c -o $TLIB/libfreetts.so \
>        $CVS_DIR/tools/lib/freetts.jar \
>        $CVS_DIR/tools/lib/cmulex.jar \
>        $CVS_DIR/tools/lib/cmu_us_kal.jar \
>        -L$TLIB -ljsapi \

You need -shared -fpic somewhere on this line.

Andrew.