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From: vasta@apollo.HP.COM (John Vasta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Help needed with shared libs & ld
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Date: 7 Feb 90 22:06:00 GMT
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In article <JNP.90Feb6160557@mjolner.tele.nokia.fi> jnp@mjolner.tele.nokia.fi (J|rgen N|rgaard) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to figure out how to use shared libraries (that can be
>inlib'ed in csh). After a small fight with the somewhat vague/
>unprecise documentation I succeded in having 2 small files used
>as shared libraries.  (I'm still at SR10.1)
>
>Next step was to combine them into one file. Call the two files ext.o ext2.o.
>
>then a file was produced like:
>
>	ld -r -o dd -A allmarks -A loadhigh -A alllooks ext.o ext2.o
>
>but when inlib'ed I got the error-message:
>	"dd - object module requires link step (process manager/loader)"
>which doesn't make sense to me (just linked it :-) . And to my best knowledge
>not described in the documentation.
>
>Any ideas what is wrong / how it should be done ?

You need to also specify the -a switch to ld; it causes the unitialized
data segment (.bss) to be allocated.

John Vasta                Hewlett-Packard Apollo Systems Division
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