how to NOT export symbols in statically linked 3rd party shared libs

[Chris Miller]

Hi all,

I have the following problem:

I have created a shared lib and want to make sure I only export those
symbols that should be accessible from external.
I manage to do that fine with "#pragma GCC visibility"  switches for all
my "own" symbols.
However my lib also statically links OpenSSL and the linker exports all
symbols in libssl too.

That is a problem because it creates a symbol collision - so how can I
keep the linker from also exporting the symbols of libs (*.a) statically
linked to my shared lib?

I appreciate any comment/hint!

Thanks a bunch!

Chris