Re: C++ code with external C API --> static library?

[llewelly at xmission dot com]

Ingolf Steinbach <Ingolf.Steinbach@jena-optronik.de> writes:

> On Friday 11 June 2004 18:50, llewelly@xmission.com wrote:
> > > 4. A user shall be able to use the library with gcc without
> > >    having to know that the library is implemented in C++
> > >    (i.e. the library must not reference unresolved C++ related
> > >    symbols; all these symbols have to be resolved when the
> > >    library is created).
> >
> > For this, you'll need to link libstdc++ and libsupc++ to the library
> >     staticly.
> 
> Thank you for your comments.
> 
> Any suggestions wrt the correct invocation of g++ to achieve
> this?

I don't remember, and I can't seem to make time to test it out. I
    think -static.

> (Note: of course, I'd prefer to only include those parts
> of the stdc++ and supc++ libraries which are really needed.)
> 
> > > 5. Only symbols from the C language API are to be exported
> > >    by the library. No internal symbols shall be visible.
> 
> I found some remarks on selecting the set of exported symbols
> in the GNU ld info pages, but maybe I still got something
> wrong (as there still are other symbols in the resulting library).
> What is the correct way to do this?

I'm sorry, I don't know.