[Linux-disciples] Archive libraries and shared objects

[Adam Kessel]

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:58:59AM -0500, Brian Cooke wrote:
> So I have these files that were produced from a 'make' command that have=
=20
> '.a' extension (ex. libfoo.a).  I know there is a way to convert these=20
> .a files into shared objects (libfoo.so) but I can't for the life of me=
=20
> figure out what it is.  Anyone know?

A friend suggests just extracting the archive and recompiling.  This may
not work if the archive was not originally compiled with -fPIC.  So, for
example with libfoo.a:

~> ar x libfoo.a
~> gcc -shared -o libfoo.so libfoo.o
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Adam Kessel
http://bostoncoop.net/adam

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