Re: Linking static lib into shared lib

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

roman schindlauer <romans@despammed.com> writes:

> This results in the following error:
> /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> ./libraptor.a(raptor_parse.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a
> local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with 
> -fPIC

The linker told you what you must do: recompile all objects in
libraptor.a with -fPIC.

> (What does -shared actually mean: that it PRODUCES a shared lib or

Yes.

> that the linker should LINK dynamically to the specified libs? 

No. That's '-dynamic' (linker default).

> Then, what is -static?)

That the linker should produce a statically-linked executable.
The '-static' is antonym to '-dynamic'.

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