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Re: Building .so files only.


From: Benjamin Reed
Subject: Re: Building .so files only.
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:55:46 -0400

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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