Dynamic Libraries under Solaris

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May  2, 2000, Vinu V Nair <vinu@sasi.com> wrote:

> g++ -o libname.so -shared source.o
>  where source.o is obtained as follows
> g++ -c source.cxx,

You're missing -fPIC.

> NB: This (both gcc and g++) works fine in Linux.

GNU ld isn't as strict WRT -fPIC as Solaris' linker.  But it's
advantageous to use it on GNU/Linux too, since it allows for sharing
of code pages.

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