ld: common symbols not allowed with MH_DYLIB output format with the -multi_module option

Mike Stump mrs@apple.com
Fri Jun 10 23:39:00 GMT 2005


On Friday, June 10, 2005, at 04:15  PM, Sam Lauber wrote:
>> #1. I need to tell the linker to use -single_module
>> #2. Rewrite the code to make a fake initialization
>> #3. I need to pass -fno-common to the compiler
> From a standpoint of just getting the thing deployed, any one of these 
> three
> is right.

Sigh.  #2 doesn't work as the compiler can synthesize common variables 
that you can't control, and when it does this, things won't work.  
Forcing people to use -single_module strikes me as wrong.

So, from the standpoint of good advice, -fno-common is the only answer.



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