Hi, Assume a module/application is using a shared library. Now if i need to statically link the shared library then i need to make the compiler understand that the .so file should be statically linked. Can someone please let me know as how can we achieve this?
Thanks Uday
.so is not statically linked. .so is "shared object". By default a compiler like gcc tries to link with shared library. If you need to link statically (.a file) use -static option.
-siddharth
You can't, it works differently: the .so file is built to be a shared library (.so = "shared object"). Usually, there is also a statically linkable version of the same library (built from the same sources, but with different build options) by the name of .a . If you link your program statically, the compiler will link against that .a file, not against the .so file.
HTH
Rob
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