Re: Building .so files only.

[Benjamin Reed]

On Aug 29, 2003, at 12:55 AM, Daniel Reed wrote:

> To produce only .la and .so files, you can pass -module -avoid-version 
> to
> libtool. In Automake, you can do this by using something similar to:
>
> pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = mymod.la
> mymod_la_SOURCES = mymod.c
>
> mymod_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version
>
> This also removes the requirement that the library name start with 
> "lib."

This may work on Linux, but on some platforms, this produces a very 
different file from a library created without -module.

"modules" are meant to only be used as a plugin, ie dlopened or 
something similar.  With the module flag, it's a plugin; without, it's 
a shared library.

If you're using -module to make shared libs (that will get linked 
against by other things), your project isn't portable.  ;)


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