[ILUG] Turning an executable into a shared library

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:42:52AM +0000, Greg Farrel mentioned:
>    How can I do this? I'm running RH 7.2, and I've tried google, but I
> cant make head or tail of the ldap explanation,
 
 Piece of piss.

 Take out all the possibly common routines into something like;

    libgame.c 

 with defines & function prototypes in;

    libgame.h

 compile it with:

     gcc -fpic -c libgame.c -o libgame.lo
     gcc -shared -o libgame.so libgame.lo

 And then you can bang libgame.so into /usr/local/lib, run ldconfig to
make sure it's picked up, then;


    gcc -o game game.c -l game

 and it'll link it all in.

Kate
 
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