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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!univ-lyon1.fr!fdn.fr!r2d2.fdn.org!sphynx.fdn.fr!causse From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) Subject: Re: From .a to .so X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: individual - paris - france Message-ID: <E90G4G.1xt@sphynx.fdn.fr> References: <5jgm21$bet$2@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 23:05:04 GMT Lines: 30 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39497 Henry Avatar Chan (q8e192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote: : This is my limited understanding of dynamic libs: : 1) they end with a .so : 2) one can specify their path via LD_LIBRARY_PATH : my question is: How do I make a shared/dynamic library given : a file that ends with a .a? : (BTW are shared and dynamic synonyms) You cannot. This is not the same object code => you need the source. Code put in ".so" files has been compiled in "position independent" mode, using "gcc -fpic". Look in /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk for a comprehensive list of options. BTW, this makefile is quite handy if you want to build you own shared libs... SRCS = list of sources LIB = name of lib (without extension) SHLIB_MAJOR = 1 SHLIB_MINOR = 0 .include <bsd.lib.mk> : thx, : Henry Chan : q8e192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca : Free BSD2.1.0 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Causse http://www.fdn.fr/~pcausse 4.4BSD/X11R6/Motif-2.0/C++ mailto:causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (UUCP)