-shared && -static

Jeff Baker jbaker@qnx.com
Thu Jul 28 15:28:00 GMT 2005


My point is that -shared says to create a shared library while -static says
to link only against static libraries.  I don't see why they should be
mutually exclusive.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz [mailto:drow@false.org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:32 AM
> To: Jeff Baker
> Cc: 'binutils@sourceware.org'
> Subject: Re: -shared && -static
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:29:40AM -0400, Jeff Baker wrote:
> > I'm getting the following message from ld (2.16).
> >
> > ntosh-ld: -static and -shared may not be used together
> >
> > My question is: Why not?  What if I want to create a shared library that
> > doesn't link against other shared libraries?
> 
> Then don't link it against any other shared libraries.  It's still not
> static.
> 
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> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery, LLC



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