Re: wrapping static libraries

A stupid though, on most Unix systems, can't you use "ar" to extract all
the .o files of the static library and link them in a .so with the
_wrap.o file generated from the wrapping code?

Anton


On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:39, Marcelo Matus wrote:
> Then probably you will need to link the static library against Perl, and
> make an especial Perl binary... well, that is at least what you have
> to do with python, if you don't have the shared library and only the 
> static one.
> 
> Marcelo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Anton Deguet wrote:
> 
> >I believe the question is different.  The library is static and can NOT
> >be recompiled since it is a third party one.
> >
> >I would guess that one could generate the wrapping code with swig,
> >compile it and then link it against the existing static library, forming
> >a fairly large library containing the static one.
> >
> >Anton
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 12:58, Marcelo Matus wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>read the ICC compiler, and look for the -fpic, -fPIC or -kPIC option.
> >>
> >>to build a shared library, you need to add the PIC flag.
> >>
> >>marcelo
> >>
> >>
> >>Scott Murman wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>i'm trying to wrap a 3rd-party static library on an IA64 system.  the 
> >>>intel compilers are complaining that the static library is not 
> >>>compiled with PIC, so that i can't build a shared library that perl 
> >>>can load at runtime.  is this a general limitation, or something more 
> >>>specific to these compilers?   are there possible solutions?
> >>>
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