Compile static library using g++ - linux

I have 3 classes - I denote those by firstClass,secondClass,thirdClass.
My headers - firstClass.h, secondClass.h, thirdClass.h and sources firstClass.cpp, secondClass.cpp, thirdClass.cpp.
In class thirdClass I create instance of firstClass and two instance of secondClass.
In main.cpp I deamonize and create instance thirdClass.
I want to create static library of thirdclass and linking to main.cpp.
firstClass and thirdClass used the same library libm.a
I created library step by step as following:
g++ -c -I-/usr/include/ -I-/usr/lib/ -I-/home/projects/Learninig firstClass.cpp -lstdc++ -lm-o WsChannel.o -w -m32
g++ -c -I-/usr/include/ -I-/usr/lib/ --I-/home/projects/Learninig secondClass -lstdc++ -o secondClass.o -w -m32
g++ -c -I-/usr/include/ -I-/usr/lib/ --I-/home/projects/Learninig thirdClass.cpp -lstdc++ -lm -o thirdClass.o -w -m32
ar rcs libLearning.a firstClass.o secondClass.o thirdClass.o
g++ main.cpp -L. -lLearning -lm -o MnLearning.o -m32
Compiling was maked correctly without any errors, but when I execute program I have same error. I spent some hours on checking code, but I don't find bugs. So then maybe compiling was incorrect. I did this using some tutorial in web.
If whatever was unclearly I am ready to more explain my question.
Edit: My error:
segfault at 557400000045 ip 00005574bd509dcd sp 00007ffd9e887900 error 4 in MnLearning[5574bd4f2000+26000]

The error is surely inside your own source code. Avoid undefined behavior in it, and be scared of UB.
Your use of -I- is strange, and probably wrong. I recommend removing it (and also, at first, remove the -m32 flag if your computer and distribution is 64 bits; work first to have your program run correctly on your laptop, then port it later to 32 bits Linux by adding the -m32 flag). You might use preprocessor options like -H to be shown what files are included.
I recommend building your library and your program with some build automation tool, such as GNU make or ninja.
Configure your build to compile with all warnings and debug info, i.e. using g++ -Wall -Wextra -g with GCC. Improve your source code to get no warnings. Then use the gdb debugger to understand the behavior of your program (and library).
So then maybe compiling was incorrect.
No, the compiler is probably good, and you should trust it.
The bug is very likely to be in your own code.
My error: segfault at 557400000045 ip 00005574bd509dcd sp 00007ffd9e887900 error 4 in MnLearning[5574bd4f2000+26000]
Segmentation fault is a symptom of some error in your own code (e.g. some buffer overflow, some bad pointer dereference, etc; or other kind of UB).
You might also use valgrind.
I spent some hours on checking code, but I don't find bugs.
You did not spend enough time (some bugs may take you weeks of work to be found), and you forgot to use the debugger, a very handy tool to help you understand the behavior of your program and find bugs in it. Be aware that programming is difficult, and don't be discouraged.

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g++ lto optimization breaking symbols in shared libraries

I have run into a problem when compiling with -flto in that I run into a problem where a symbol appears to disappear in a shared library which causes an undefined symbol error when attempting to dlopen another shared library. This only happens when -flto is defined and happens with g++ 7.5 and 11.2.
When I look at the shared library which contains the C++ template that's failing with lto with readelf -Ws, I see some curious differences.
Without LTO, I see these two entries, indicating a weak function:
3805: 0000000000334a70 1843 FUNC WEAK DEFAULT 13 _ZN13VirtualMapper13stage2_lookupILb0EEEN3vms15lookup_result_tEimbN6sysreg9ESR_ELX_tENS_8Access_tEb
2660: 0000000000334a70 1843 FUNC WEAK DEFAULT 13 _ZN13VirtualMapper13stage2_lookupILb0EEEN3vms15lookup_result_tEimbN6sysreg9ESR_ELX_tENS_8Access_tEb
I am not sure why the function is being marked as weak since the attribute isn't being specified in the code.
However, with -flto enabled, I instead see the following:
728: 000000000007e4d2 1422 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 13
_ZN13VirtualMapper13stage2_lookupILb0EEEN3vms15lookup_result_tEimbN6sysreg9ESR_ELX_tENS_8Access_tEb.cold
1308: 0000000000303430 7449 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 13 _ZN13VirtualMapper13stage2_lookupILb0EEEN3vms15lookup_result_tEimbN6sysreg9ESR_ELX_tENS_8Access_tEb
In this case, instead of being marked as weak, it has ".cold" appended to it.
Furthermore, when I attempt to dump using objdump -T -w, in the working case without lto I see:
0000000000334a70 w DF .text 0000000000000733 Base _ZN13VirtualMapper13stage2_lookupILb0EEEN3vms15lookup_result_tEimbN6sysreg9ESR_ELX_tENS_8Access_tEb
However, with lto enabled, this symbol is not present when listed with objdump.
I cannot provide source since it is from a very large proprietary c++ project, unfortunately. It is compiled using -fPIC -shared -rdynamic -mcx16 -march=native (on AMD Threadripper) along with the proper rpath assigned.
As for the CPPFLAGS, -O3, -march=native -fPIC -mno-red-zone -std=gnu++11 and various parameters to enable various warnings. I had to compile with -fPIC instead of -fpic due to the compiler complaining. Note that this is also with clean builds as well.
This is with OpenSUSE 15.3 with libc 2.31 and libstdc++ 6.0.29. This happens with both g++ 7.5 and 11.2. Everything works fine when lto is not enabled.
Any idea on what could be going on? To me this looks like a bug in the lto optimizer. Symbols should not disappear in shared libraries when lto is enabled.
The problem turned out that the template needed to be explicitely instantiated in the .cpp file where it was defined. Without that, the compiler appears to have attempted to inline it and not make it externally visible. The other option is to add attribute((externally_visible)) to the template definition in the header file.

Haskell ghc compiling/linking error, not creating executable. (linux)

I wrote a basic hello world program in haskel and tried to compile it with:
ghc filename.hs. It produces .hi and .o files but no executable and displays
this error in the linker:
marox#IT-marox:~/Marox$ ghc tupel.hs
Linking tupel ...
/usr/bin/ld: --hash-size=31: unknown option
/usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Googling didn't return any useful information.
I am on ubuntu 12.04.
How can I fix this?
Have you binutils-gold installed? If yes, this is the problem (since the gold linker does not support --hash-size AFAIK).
Possible solutions:
remove gold
your ld probably links to ld.gold, so change the symlink to ld.ld
tell the haskell compiler explicitly which linker to use with the -pgml option: ghc -pgml ld.ld tupel.hs
install ghc from source, since the configure script of ghc will then build ghc so that it won't use --hash-size
Depending on your version of ghc, you can adjust the linker settings in ghc's setting file /usr/lib/ghc-your.ghc.version/settings
Update - gold on Ubuntu 12.10 appears to move GNU ld to ld.bfd. To fix this problem I deleted the ld link as recommended and remade the link with
ln -s ld.bfd ld
ghc compilations are now going through.
(Couldn't see how to subvert the settings file in usr/lib/ghc, as the entry is for gcc which passes through its commandline to ld, although this would have been my preferred option, in case something else needs ld to be the way it was.)
Thanks to Dominic for the pointer of where to look! It was driving me crazy...

Eclipse-CDT on x86_64 system cannot link to shared library [duplicate]

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How to link to a shared library without lib* prefix in a different directory? [duplicate]
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I compiled a few libraries using Eclipse-CDT on windows. However, when I tried to compile them under linux gcc keeps giving me the error /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lrequestedLib. I'm using the exact same build settings between the two environments (namely I made sure to add the directories that contain the libraries i need to link to). I'm sure the system has read access rights to the files as well. I'm not sure what to make of this. Please help.
Edit: These are the commands that ecplise runs to build the library:
gcc -I/home/me/lib/ -O3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -olibToMake.o ../libToMake.c
gcc -L/home/me/lib/ -shared -olibToMake.so libToMake.o -lrequestedLib
Edit 2: The command that renders the error is the second of the two, resulting in the /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lrequestedLib being output.
Edit 3: I've confirmed that requestedLib.so is a x86_64 binary.
If you don't want to pass -L command line options to gcc(1), be sure to add the path containing the libraries to /etc/ld.so.conf or /etc/ld.so.cond.d/<something>.
Once you've installed your libraries you also need to run ldconfig(8) by hand. (Most new users forget this step because typical package managers take care of this for you when installing new libraries.)
gcc -I/home/me/lib/ -O3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -olibToMake.o ../libToMake.c
gcc -L/home/me/lib/ -shared -olibToMake.so libToMake.o -lrequestedLib
When building 64-bit shared libraries on x86_64, the -fPIC flag is usually required, or you get a recompile with -fPIC error at shared library link time.
Since you didn't use -fPIC, yet your link succeeded, you are likely using (non-default) gcc that targets i*86 (that is, produces 32-bit output). You can confirm that by running file libToMake.so.
You didn't show that command that actually fails (the one that produces cannot find -lrequestedLib error). I am guessing that that command is using a different gcc (default one?), that targets x86_64. If it looks something like
gcc main.c -L/home/me/lib -lrequestedLib
that command will ignore /home/me/lib/librequestedLib.so (because you can't link together 32-bit and 64-bit code), and will continue searching for librequestedLib elsewhere. When it can't find a 64-bit version of librequestedLib, it will produce the error message you are gettiing.

How to prevent GCC from passing in default flags?

I am trying to cross-compile linux for an ARM architecture.
The host is an X86 machine running ubuntu-jaunty. I downloaded a cross-compile toolchain for ARM from http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/armlinux/toolchain/. I downloaded the 2.95.3 version of the toolchain.
The problem I am having is that GCC is passing in some default flags by itself that is causing GCC to then output error:
/usr/local/arm/2.95.3/bin/arm-linux-gcc -specs=/home/feroze/wnr834m/marvell_WNR834M/gcc_specs -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/feroze/wnr834m/marvell_WNR834M/linux-88fxx81-1_1_3_gtk/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -Os -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -DLED_DUAL_COLOR -DFOR_ROUTER -I/home/feroze/wnr834m/marvell_WNR834M/linux-88fxx81-1_1_3_gtk/arch/arm/mach-mv88fxx81/Soc/gpp/ -Uarm -fno-common -pipe -mapcs-32 -D__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__=5 -march=armv5 -mtune=arm9tdmi -mshort-load-bytes -msoft-float -Uarm -march=strongarm -DKBUILD_BASENAME=main -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
cc1: bad value (strongarm) for -march= switch
make[1]: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/feroze/wnr834m/marvell_WNR834M/linux-88fxx81-1_1_3_gtk'
I checked the whole makefile, and could not find any place where LINUX_ARM_ARCH_5 and -march=armv5 are being defined. I am defining -march=strongarm in the makefile, but then it gets appended by theh ARMv5 defines.
So, I created a defs file from gcc, modified it to only have options for ARMv4, and then used it by specifying the -specs= option. However, that still doesnt solve the problem.
Can somemone help? How do I resolve this?
Thanks!
feroze
The -march flag is set in arch/ARM/Makefile, and depends on the machine you selected in your config file. If you don't want the armv5 flag, be sure to select the correct architecture in the config file.
You should assume the kernel appended CFLAGS are right (provided your config is ok) and if your toolchain does not support one of them, then you have no choice but to cross compile a toolchain by yourself, using the original crosstol script that should work with 2.95.3
Edit : original answer
What are you trying to build ?
a 2.95.3 toolchain is fairly ancient. You should try a more recent toolchain. You can find a precompiled one here
Pick the EABI one to start.
This is not a direct answer to your problem, but if you are building the linux kernel, you should not need to mess with the Makefiles. You will get more help if you can get a more "standard" toolchain.
This won't strictly help you eliminate the issue, but you can do gcc -dM -E <empty_file.c> or gcc -dM -E -x c /dev/null to print out a listing of all the predefined #defines for gcc. Combine -dM with another flag like your -march and you might be able to track down what's causing your #define issue.
Be sure to check your environment variables, as they can persuade make to do unexpected things.
If the Makefile includes another file, it could be modifying CFLAGS before CC is called. Can you print the contents of CFLAGS just before the CC call?

Do I need -D_REENTRANT with -pthreads?

On Linux (kernel 2.6.5) our build system calls gcc with -D_REENTRANT.
Is this still required when using pthreads?
How is it related to gcc -pthread option? I understand that I should use -pthread with pthreads, do I still need -D_REENTRANT?
On a side note, is there any difference that you know off between the usage of REENTRANT between gcc 3.3.3 and gcc 4.x.x ?
When I use -pthread gcc option I can see that _REENTRANT gets defined. Will omitting -D_REENTRANT from command line make any difference, for example could some objects be compiled without multithreaded support and then linked into binary that uses pthreads and will cause problems?
I assume it should be ok just to use: g++ -pthread
> echo | g++ -E -dM -c - > singlethreaded
> echo | g++ -pthread -E -dM -c - > multithreaded
> diff singlethreaded multithreaded
39a40
> #define _REENTRANT 1
We're compiling multiple static libraries and applications that link with the static libraries, both libraries and application use pthreads.
I believe it was required at some stage in the past but want to know if it is still required. Googling hasn't returned any recent information mentioning -D_REENTRANT with pthreads. Could you point me to links or references discussing the use in recent version of kernel/gcc/pthread?
Clarification: At the moment we're using -D_REENTRANT and -lpthread, I assume I can replace them with just g++ -pthread, looking at man gcc it sets the flags for both preprocessor and linker. Any thoughts?
For me the best answer was the comment from pts if only he bothered to submit it as answer:
You investigated properly and answered
your own question. Use g++ -pthread,
it is equivalent to g++ -lpthread -D_REENTRANT.
Using g++ -D_REENTRANT would be different,
it may not set all the linker flags. –
pts May 18 at 0:30
From the gcc info pages:
`-pthread'
Adds support for multithreading with the "pthreads" library. This
option sets flags for both the preprocessor and linker.
So just the -pthread flag should be sufficient. I wouldn't recommend only passing it to some of your code, however.
As Chris suggested in the comments, using gcc -dumpspecs on Linux does indeed confirm that it sets preprocessor flags as well:
%{posix:-D_POSIX_SOURCE} %{pthread:-D_REENTRANT}
gcc's -pthreads flag sets the relevant compiler and linker flags necessary for pthreads support on the platform you're on.
You're right, on linux x86 (and probably many other platforms), that's equivalent to '-D_REENTRANT -lpthread' but that's not necessarily true on all platforms.
(For at least some time, on aix, -pthread caused g++ to link in a completely different libstdc++.a. I don't know if that's still the case now, though...)

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