how do libtool convinience libraries work ?

[Thiago Macieira]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>If it is linked using libtool, the contents of the static lib are
> inserted into the shared lib.
>What does libtool magically do ?

Magic trickery :-)

>I mean, in the end it must come down to some gcc/ld/ar/ranlib options I
> think.
>
>So, can anybody shed some light on me, how can I have the same effect
>manually ?

Sure.

I've just found it out too:

$ nm m1.o
00000000 T func1
$ nm m2.o
00000000 T func2
$ ar r libconv.a m1.o
ar: creating libconv.a

Wrong way:
$ gcc -shared -o libshared.so m2.o libconv.a
$ nm libshared.so | grep func.
00000478 T func2

Right way:
$ gcc -shared -o libshared.so m2.o -Wl,--whole-archive libconv.a 
-Wl,--no-whole-archive
$ nm libshared.so | grep func.
0000049c T func1
00000494 T func2

So, note: don't forget the --no-whole-archive in the end, or ld will try 
to include other system libraries into your library.

Hint: use -nostdlib as well.

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