How to make an .so file for Linux binaries

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> (from Wed, 03 Jan  
2007 12:42:38 -0800):

> 	Trying to add Flashplayer 9 functionality to FreeBSD (via the
> Linux binary and www/linux-pluginwrapper) and I was wondering how I
> should go about determining which symbols need to be used in the .so
> file, and also how I should go about including the files (#include for
> the C files, `cat`, etc?).

You should see complaints about missing symbols when you start the  
browser on the console and the output is not redirected to /dev/null  
(this may be done in a shell wrapper of the browser, you should  
check). You can also use "nm" to have a look at missing symbols in the  
.so.

Regarding the last part of your question... have a look at what the  
linux-pluginwrapper does.

Note: linux-pluginwrapper will not work on 7-current because of symbol  
versioning.

Bye,
Alexander.

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