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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:54:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Make a Shared Library using Makefile
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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
library later.
	Igor
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