[ILUG] Turning an executable into a shared library

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, John P. Looney wrote:

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

cant you do that in one step? gcc -fpic -shared -o libgame.so 
libgame.c?

that's worked for me in the past to create little libs to overload 
libc functions (eg turn exit() into abort() - very useful if you 
have an app that doesnt log why it exited abnormally).

--paulj