Compiling only shared libraries?

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 03:00:27PM -0800, Matthew Fleming wrote:
> We have a bunch of libraries to support our product and as far as I know
> we only link to the shared library version.  I'd like to skip the build
> of the static version of our libraries to speed up our builds and save
> on disk space, but I don't see any way to do that via directives in the
> Makefiles.  I didn't see anything in bsd.lib.mk which would indicate
> this can be done.
> 
> Is this even possible?

Just write your own Makefile. See the snippets below;

BASENAME = foo
VERSION_MAJOR = 1
VERSION_MINOR = 0
...
OBJS = bar.o baz.o ...
...
SHARED            = lib$(BASENAME).so.$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR)
...
# build the shared library
$(SHARED):      $(OBJS)
        cc -shared -Wl,-soname,lib$(BASENAME).so.$(VERSION_MAJOR) \
        -o $(SHARED) $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
        strip -g --strip-unneeded $(SHARED)

Roland
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