Make a Shared Library using Makefile

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > Pradip Jadav wrote:
> >
> > > example.dll : example.c
> > >         ${CXX} $< ${CXXFLAGS} -shared -fPIC -L. -lexample -Wl,-soname,$@ -o $@
> >
> > You shouldn't use "-fPIC" or "-Wl,soname" as far as I know.
>
> -fPIC is ignored (and there's a warning about it), and -Wl,soname is
> redundant but harmless, AFAIK.  Another option that might help is
> -Wl,-out-implib,$@.a, so that the DLL can be linked with via an import
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Make that -Wl,--out-implib,$@.a (I thought I'd checked it before sending
off the e-mail, but apparently not).

> library later.
> 	Igor

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