Forced creation of dynamic sections

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Stephen,

> Is there a way to force ld to create the dynamic sections,
> even if there are no dynamic objects in the link?
>
> I'm building a static main program that has a run-time loader
> (a cut down dlopen()-like thing) built into it.  My
> loader wants to load a module that contains some undefined
> references, and resolve those to symbols in the main
> program.  To do this I need to ensure the main program
> contains a dynamic symbol table.
>
> I guess I can use tricks with a dummy reference to a dummy
> dynamic library to do this, but is there a better way?

Not really.  You are trying to play tricks with the operating system
and this is never a very good idea.

You might try using the --emit-relocs linker option, although I am not
guaranteeing anything.

Cheers
        Nick