Re: shared library tutorial? [db]

["Daniel S. Barclay" <daniel@compass-da.com>]

> From: "Kevin M. Bealer" <kmb203@psu.edu>


...
> >Can anyone point me to an online reference on how to compile and use
> >shared libraries?...
> 
> I don't know anything about the portability side but this seems
> to work for me:
> 
...
> $ gcc --shared -o libgrunt.so tercated.c
> 
> (as root)
> # cp libgrunt.so /usr/local/lib/
> # ldconfig -v
> 
> $ gcc -o sophis sophis.c -lgrunt
> $ ./sophis
> Hello world.

How can you get to the shared library if you don't put it in /usr/local/lib?
Does LD_LIBRARY_PATH work on Debian Linux?  

I just noticed that the ld.so manual page says that ld.so is for a.out
binaries.  Where is information on the loading process for ELF binaries?


Thanks,
Daniel
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