help with linking please

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Tim Kientzle <kientzle at acm.org> [040113 15:41] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >It will refuse to strip symbols if:
> >
> >foo.o:func1() references bar.o:func2().
> >
> >But I need it to.
> 
> I suppose there are good reasons why you
> cannot compile everything into a single
> .o file for distribution?
> 
> > cat master.c
> #include <foo.c>
> #include <bar.c>
> > gcc -o master.o master.c
> 
> Now you have a single .o file with everything
> in it and there are therefore no cross-module
> references within your library.

It would be more trouble than it's worth.  I use libssl and libcrypto,
it would be a nightmare to #include all those .c files as well as
compile it... without incemental compilation it would hurt.

What I wound up doing was loading the creating a static object to
load my module... er yeah.. :)


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