Converting from .a to .so

[Richard Dawe]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 14:52 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> On 12/24/06, Paul <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Okay, for future reference, is there a way to do what I need to do
>>> (convert from .a to .so)?
>> Don't you just need to pass -shared to the compiler?
> 
> You need to make sure you build shared libraries with -fPIC too.

I always find the section in the Program-Library-HOWTO (from the Linux
Document Project) quite helpful:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html#AEN95

The HOWTO is a bit out of date if you're a C++ programmer. It doesn't
cover symbol visibility <http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility>, for example.

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