I have shared object libraries, *.so, from a third party.
I can compile my program by linking to those libraries, and
as long as those libraries are in a location included in my
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, everything works fine.
I would like to compile their .so's and my code into a single
new .so that has no dependencies - a single shared object
that I can distribute without having to distribute ancillary
.so files.

What options do I need to pass to g++ / gcc in order to do this?

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Request for Question Clarification by maniac-ga on 10 Oct 2002 17:04 PDT

Hello Biologyandeconomics,

I cannot make a suggestion for what you asked for. I could suggest
 - a way to group the .so files and change the install script to
handle your objects and those of the third party.
 - a way to extract the objects from an archive (.a) and build a new
shared object library if the files were compiled as position
independent.

Would you like an answer based on one of those solutions?
  --Maniac

Once you have linked the static libs you have no more dependencies.

Your executable will run without them.


I am cofused what you want ??

like g++ -static?

This could be made as an interesting extension to the linker :
a. Take a bunch of shared libs and merge them into one.
b. Take a shared lib and make it static again.


Do you have the source code for these libs? Can you rebuild them.

What is this worth to you, 2$ is a bit little for development work.