Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!phigate!philica!adrie
From: adrie@philica.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: How do I build libraries with gcc-ar ?
Message-ID: <681@philica.ica.philips.nl>
Date: 4 Oct 90 14:08:09 GMT
References: <1990Oct3.115632.9757@ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: adrie@beitel.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
Organization: Philips TDS, Innovation Centre Aachen
Lines: 18

In article <1990Oct3.115632.9757@ecn.purdue.edu> cyliax@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax) writes:
>Has anyone successfully build libraries with the Gnu archiver "gcc-ar" 
>under Minix-ST ? Mine blows up when I try the 'standard' ways:
>
>		gcc-ar	r libc.a objects...

For the Sparc version of Minix, I use the FSF GNU C-compiler. As its loader
directly reads libc.a, it knows the ar format and __.SYMDEF. The GNU ar file
format is somewhat different from the Minix ar file format (merely the ASCII
type of header), so I also use GNU ar. Some changes were necessary. To use
the `ranlib' feature, ar must be able to read the symbol table of object
files, so it needs a.out.h. I provided it with a Sun compatible a.out.h,
because the `.o' files of Minix-Sparc are in GNU (=SunOS) format.
Furthermore, I defined USG. I compiled it with the GNU C-compiler under
Minix on a SparcStation 1 and it works!

Adrie Koolen (adrie@ica.philips.nl)
Philips Innovation Centre Aachen