Re: Error making shared lib

[Derrik Pates <dpates@dsdk12.net>]

Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> I just went and ressurected some old code I wrote 3 years ago. It
> wants to take a couple of static libs, and make a shared lib out of
> the whole bunch using the --whole-archive flag to ld.

Yeah, but you're not passing the flag to ld, you're passing it to gcc.

> Here is the link/compile line:
> gcc -shared -Xlinker --whole-archive -L../bin-ppc-Linux -L./../kpl/bin-ppc-Linux -L/usr/lib/ -L/usr/lib/ -lpad
>
> Here is an example of the errors:
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a(__dummy.o): In function `__dummy':
> __dummy.o(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `__dummy'
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a(__dummy.o)(.text+0x0): first defined here

Yeah. Try passing -Wl,-whole-archive if you want to pass that option via 
a gcc command line, instead of to ld itself.

Derrik Pates
dpates@dsdk12.net