how to reference a lib*.so instead of using -I blat.jar

[Heitzso]

Andrew Haley wrote:

>Heitzso writes:
> > Quick question ....
> > 
> > I have a jar, A, that is dependent on another jar, B.
> > Let's say I use gcj to compile B.jar down to a libB.so file.
> > 
> > Now, when I go to compile A down to libA.so, I'm currently
> > setting up the gcj command like:
> >     gcj  -I  B.jar  -c  -o  libA.so  A.jar
> > 
> > What should I be doing instead to pick up the B.jar classes
> > from libB.so instead of from "-I B.jar"
>
>-lB
>
>Fomr "man ld" :
>
>       -larchive
>       --library=archive
>           Add archive file archive to the list of files to  link.   This  option
>           may  be  used  any  number of times.  ld will search its path-list for
>           occurrences of "libarchive.a" for every archive specified.
>
>           On systems which support shared libraries,  ld  may  also  search  for
>           libraries  with  extensions other than ".a".  Specifically, on ELF and
>           SunOS systems, ld will search a directory for a library with an exten-
>           sion  of ".so" before searching for one with an extension of ".a".  By
>           convention, a ".so" extension indicates a shared library.
>
>Andrew.
>  
>
Not certain I asked the question right.  Or perhaps I'm just invoking
wrong.   In the following gcj command, no matter where I put
    -L$TLIB -ljsapi
I still get missing classes errors.  But if I instead include
    -I~/tts/freetts/lib/jsapi.jar
which that libjsapi.so file was compiled from in the -I list, everything
is okay.  My assumption is I should be able to not use -I and
instead pick up the -ljsapi somehow to inform gcj re how the
missing classes would look.

    gcj $GCJ_FLAGS \
        -I /opt/IBMJava2-142/jre/lib/graphics.jar  \
        -I ~/tts/freetts/lib/cmulex.jar \
        -I ~/tts/freetts/lib/en_us.jar \
        -c -o $TLIB/libfreetts.so \
        $CVS_DIR/tools/lib/freetts.jar \
        $CVS_DIR/tools/lib/cmulex.jar \
        $CVS_DIR/tools/lib/cmu_us_kal.jar \
        -L$TLIB -ljsapi \
       
$TLIB/libjsapi.so exists.   It was created by:
    gcj $GCJ_FLAGS \
        -c -o $TLIB/libjsapi.so \
        ~/tts/freetts/lib/jsapi.jar

I'm guessing this is such a simple thing that it's painfully
obvious to everyone else on the list.  I apologize for this
basic question.

Heitzso