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Re: g++/GNU ld/position independent libraries
From: |
Bill Hoffman |
Subject: |
Re: g++/GNU ld/position independent libraries |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:43:52 -0500 |
At 12:39 PM 1/18/2002 +0000, Jason Merrill wrote:
>>>>>> "William" == William A Hoffman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> At 10:47 AM 1/18/2002 +0000, Jason Merrill wrote:
>>> GCC shared libraries should always be built with gcc -shared. -nostdlib is
>>> wrong.
>
>> OK, I'll bite, how should they be built? I guess you would have to figure
>> out if the libstdc++ was built shared or
>> not then add or remove the -nostdlib? If libstdc++ is built static then
>> you have to have the -nostdlib.
>
>Why? The gcc driver doesn't link against libstdc++.
But for linking c++, I thought you should use the c++ driver.
c++ -shared -o libfoo.so foo.o
In previous versions of gcc, if you did this:
gcc -shared -o libfoo.so foo.o
Globals would not be initialized properly, (no constructor calls)
At what version of gcc did that stop happening?