Re: Shared Libaries

[John Davis <jdavis1 home com>]

Brian C. Hand wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am developing some libraries in C that I am making into static
> libaries. (*.a
> files).  I know how to do this, however, I would like to re-engineer
> this so that they are shared library files. (*.so) files.  I would like
> a procedure for any
> necessary compiler switches, and whatever else I would need to know in
> order to
> compile, build the .so file(s) and be able to link them into my
> programs.

you compile it with gcc -shared -o foo.so foo.c that's all you need. i
forget how to link, i think it might produce a stub that you link with
like normal, but i don't know.

john