On 20/12/2018 03:18, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Szabolcs, > > (or should I say "Hi Nagy"? Sorry, with Hungarian proper names, I never > know what is the surname and what is the given name.)
(szabolcs is my given name, i only use the hungarian order in hungarian language context) >> by default gnulib is not built with -fPIC so it is not >> suitable for shared libraries. >> >> is there an easy way to build gnulib .a with -fPIC so >> it can be used with shared libraries and executables as >> well within the same project? > > The easy way is to use libtool, in combination with the technique > described in > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Modified-build-rules.html > . > > You find an example here: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob;f=gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/Makefile.am > > For shared libraries that are private to your application, this is all > you need. meanwhile i solved my issue in a completely different way but it's good to know that libtool is the easy solution. > > For shared libraries that are visible to other applications, you should > consider hiding the gnulib symbols. Since the set of gnulib symbols depends > on the platform, I usually follow the approach to export only a given set > of symbols (defined by .h files) and hide all the rest. Find an > example of this technique here: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob;f=gettext-tools/libgettextpo/Makefile.am > >> only elf targets need to be supported so ideally all >> gnulib replacement symbols should have hidden visibility > > If all your targets support __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))), > you can use the option determined by gnulib module 'lib-symbol-visibility'. > Documentation: > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Exported-Symbols-of-Shared-Libraries.html > > Otherwise the only reliable way to hide symbols is by adding #define > instructions through config.h. > >> object files should be built only once (with -fPIC) > > Try 'configure --disable-static --enable-shared'. > >> nor libtool dependency. > > libtool is part of the GNU build system. If you don't want libtool, > you're on your own. You'll have different build rules for every platform, > essentially. It can be done (look at libncurses, for example), though. unfortunately libtool has a lot of issues which are unlikely to be fixed any time soon. thanks.
