using ar to make a shared lib

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:45:54PM -0600, Christopher Bottaro wrote:
> hello,
> is it possible to make a shared lib (.so file) with ar?  i compile all 
> my sources with gcc and the -fPIC option, but instead of linking them 
> together with gcc and the -shared linker flag, i just wanna use ar...is 
> this possible?
> 
> example:
> gcc -c s1.c -fPIC
> gcc -c s2.c -fPIC
> gcc -c s3.c -fPIC
> ar crv s.so s1.o s2.o s3.o
> 
> thanks for the help.

No.  Why don't you try to explain why you don't want to use gcc
-shared?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer