Re: Adding the right flags to a program which dlopens

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:45:35AM -0500,
> Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote
> a message of 31 lines which said:
>
> > If you are willing to build and link your loadable modules using
> > libtool, then it as simple as linking using libtool's -module
> > option.
>
> The problem is not the building of the modules, it is the building of
> the main program, the one which includes calls to dlopen(3). If I do
> nothing special, the program does not link on Debian/Linux: undefined
> symbol dlopen.

If you use libltdl to do module loading rather than raw dlopen() then 
the necessary libraries will be applied automatically since libltdl's 
library dependencies will automatically be applied.  Otherwise you 
will need to discover these libraries for yourself using configure, or 
steal them from the libtool/libltdl configuration.

For linking programs, I add -export-dynamic to the libtool link 
options since our modules share a common library (which is also used 
by the program) and need access to its symbols.

Bob
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