When using the -Wl--whole-archive ... -Wl--no-whole-archive flags with gcc how is it that you veryify that everything links correctlly internal to the library? Also how do you verify that the library can call into other Dynamic libries that are specifed by LD_LIBRARY_PATH or ld(1)?
Assuming you want to build a shared library one solution would be to link a minimal executable against that library as part of you build and see if you get unresolved symbols. Of course this file wouldn't be installed.
The executable you build can really be minimal, for my C++ code I usually use
int main() { }
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Right now, I have a modified version of a open-source dependency library (mylib.a file) in my project and thus I have it statically linked via gcc command(s). I am getting the error that...
"statically linked applications require at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking"
My translation: my static dependency library cannot dynamically use glibc; it must also be compiled and dynamically linked. Thus, I'm trying to compile and statically link glibc.
I've gather that they would need to be compiled, the *.a library placed in a folder within the project, the "-I//location//" added in for the include headers, and the "-L//location//" added in for the libraries themselves.
But, for the question itself...
How to you compile glibc (32-bit and 64-bit)?
Through open-source research, I've found this link and I have cloned the repo but I cannot find any documentation on how to actually compile it.
git clone git://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
Any thoughts or suggestions are welcomed.
My translation: my static dependency library cannot dynamically use glibc; it must also be compiled and dynamically linked. Thus, I'm trying to compile and statically link glibc.
As n.m. pointed out, your translation is wrong.
You are trying to link a fully static executable, and GLIBC is warning you that such executable will not run correctly on any machine with a different version of GLIBC installed.
Instead of trying to build a fully-static executable, build it such that it uses libc.so.6 (you can still link mylib.a into such executable).
IF the reason you added -static to your link is that you have both libmylib.a and libmylib.so, and would like to link in the former instead of the latter, read this answer.
I'm trying to use the 64-bit MinGW from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Automated%20Builds/ but when I compile a program with it, the resulting executable fails when a DLL isn't available.
How do I get this compiler to do static linking with the standard library?
Or is there another distribution of 64-bit MinGW that I should be using instead?
The g++ switch is supposed to be
-static
See
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Link-Options.html.
-static
On systems that support dynamic linking, this prevents linking with
the shared libraries. On other systems, this option has no effect.
You should post the command line, that you use in order to compile/link, in order to get more help if this does not work for you.
I am using autoconf gnu tools to build my product.
It generates both the shared as well as static library for any library where *.la is mentioned.
The issue is if you use .la to link your binary in Makefile.am.
It links with the dynamic library but when you use ldd to the binary, it says
"not a dynamic executable" although it links with shared library. I proved it by removing the shared library after the binary is built and then tried to run the binary. It didn't find the shared library and couldn't run.
Another question is how to put library in a specified location using Makefile.am direction ?
Looks like you run ldd on the wrapper scripts created by libtool. They are used to link uninstalled libraries with uninstalled executables. Real binaries are placed in .libs directory.
You can install a lib to some specific place in this way
mylibrary_LTLIBRARIES = libmylibrary.la
mylibrarydir = ${libdir}/my_plugins/
I want to use CUDPP library in my project. I've downloaded sources from project page. Unfortunatly, when I ran "make", there was only static library build. I've looked into Makefile files and haven't found any dynamic lib configuration. I don't want to keep static library with the project - it's totally non-portable way.
My question is: how can I build .so dynamic library of CUDPP, without writing my own Makefile/compiling it manually? Maybe someone already did it?
EDIT: I've replaced "g++" with "g++ -fPIC", "gcc" with "gcc -fPIC" and "nvcc" with "nvcc -Xcompiler -fpic". When I unpack obj files from archive, and link them to shared lib, I've got no error. However, my application crashes at start, when linked with this library.
when you compile pass the flag -Xcompiler -fpic to nvcc. If you link against any cuda libraries make sure you've linked to the shared libs, otherwise you can't link it. Hopefully that's all you need.
Are you also using -shared to create the library? You shouldn't need to extract anything from an archive if it is working correctly.
If you run ldd on your executable it will show you what dynamic linking is required by the app and you can check that the -fPIC etc. worked correctly. Also make sure that the .so library is on your LD_LIBRARY_PATH (sorry if that's obvious, no harm in checking).
How can I link a shared library function statically in gcc?
Refer to:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/forcing-static-linking-of-shared-libraries-696714/
You need the static version of the library to link it.
A shared library is actually an executable in a special format
with entry points specified (and some sticky addressing issues
included). It does not have all the information needed to
link statically.
You can't statically link a shared library (or dynamically link a static one).
The flag -static will force the linker to use static libraries (.a) instead of shared (.so) ones. But static libraries aren't always installed by default, so you may have to install the static library yourself.
Another possible approach is to use statifier or Ermine. Both tools take as input a dynamically linked executable and as output create a self-contained executable with all shared libraries embedded.
If you want to link, say, libapplejuice statically, but not, say, liborangejuice, you can link like this:
gcc object1.o object2.o -Wl,-Bstatic -lapplejuice -Wl,-Bdynamic -lorangejuice -o binary
There's a caveat -- if liborangejuice uses libapplejuice, then libapplejuice will be dynamically linked too.
You'll have to link liborangejuice statically alongside with libapplejuice to get libapplejuice static.
And don't forget to keep -Wl,-Bdynamic else you'll end up linking everything static, including libc (which isn't a good thing to do).
Yeah, I know this is an 8 year-old question, but I was told that it was possible to statically link against a shared-object library and this was literally the top hit when I searched for more information about it.
To actually demonstrate that statically linking a shared-object library is not possible with ld (gcc's linker) -- as opposed to just a bunch of people insisting that it's not possible -- use the following gcc command:
gcc -o executablename objectname.o -Wl,-Bstatic -l:libnamespec.so
(Of course you'll have to compile objectname.o from sourcename.c, and you should probably make up your own shared-object library as well. If you do, use -Wl,--library-path,. so that ld can find your library in the local directory.)
The actual error you receive is:
/usr/bin/ld: attempted static link of dynamic object `libnamespec.so'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Hope that helps.
If you have the .a file of your shared library (.so) you can simply include it with its full path as if it was an object file, like this:
This generates main.o by just compiling:
gcc -c main.c
This links that object file with the corresponding static library and creates the executable (named "main"):
gcc main.o mylibrary.a -o main
Or in a single command:
gcc main.c mylibrary.a -o main
It could also be an absolute or relative path:
gcc main.c /usr/local/mylibs/mylibrary.a -o main
A bit late but ... I found a link that I saved a couple of years ago and I thought it might be useful for you guys:
CDE: Automatically create portable Linux applications
http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.html
Just download the program
Execute the binary passing as a argument the name of the binary you want make portable, for example: nmap
./cde_2011-08-15_64bit nmap
The program will read all of libs linked to nmap and its dependencias and it will save all of them in a folder called cde-package/ (in the same directory that you are).
Finally, you can compress the folder and deploy the portable binary in whatever system.
Remember, to launch the portable program you have to exec the binary located in cde-package/nmap.cde
Best regards
In gcc, this isn't supported. In fact, this isn't supported in any existing compiler/linker i'm aware of.