<solved> freebsd equiv of libdl.a (load shared libs)

[mdh]

--- Steve Franks <stevefranks at ieee.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Steve Franks
> <stevefranks at ieee.org> wrote:
> > I am porting a linux app which is looking for
> libdl.a (which I
> >  understand from googling is related to loading of
> shared libs).  The
> >  app makes a libusb-based shared lib.  FreeBSD
> uses shared libs, so I
> >  assume there is equivalent functionality
> somewhere.  I also see
> >  libdl.a in /compat/linux/lib, but I assume if I
> link a native FreeBSD
> >  app against this, fireworks will be the only
> result.  I further assume
> >  since I got no error from gcc, that some freebsd
> header actally points
> >  to the exact functions expected in libdl.a, so
> they are in there
> >  somewhere....
> >
> >  Steve
> >
> >  --
> >  Steve Franks, KE7BTE
> >  Staff Engineer
> >  La Palma Devices, LLC
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> >  (520) 312-0089
> >
> 
> Looks like changing -ldl to -lc (libc.a) to the link
> step in my
> makefile did it.  No idea why they weren't picking
> that up...
> 
> Steve

You don't need -lc.  C compilers link in libc
regardless.  You may also want to consider letting it
load dynamically at runtime rather than linking the
static .a file at compile-time.  

Chances are what it was looking for was dlopen() and
friends, which are in libc on FreeBSD.  They are a
part of libc on my Linux systems as well though, so
not sure why it'd be trying to link against another
library, though admittedly I know a lot more about
development for FreeBSD than for Linux.  
- mdh



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