Building shared library that uses libstdc++

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 13, 2001, "Lundell, Jens O." <JENS.O.LUNDELL@saic.com> wrote:

> g++ -fPIC -shared -o libjens.so source.cpp

> g++ -static -o jensexe source.cpp

> but when I combine the two I get the following error:

> ld: warning: option -d appears more than once, first setting taken

Do you mean, as in:

  g++ -fPIC -shared -static -o libjens.so source.cpp ?
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This just can't work.

> Do I have to distribute libstdc++.so.2.10.0 together with my shared library?

Specify the full pathname of libstdc++.a, and use the -mimpure-text
switch, such that the linker won't complain even though libstc++.a
contains non-PIC.

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