Making a shared library from a gcc .a library

10 March 2003, 16:03

Does anyone know how to make a shared library from a gcc .a library?

BuZz · 10 March 2003, 19:06

There is no quick easy "conversion" process. You can manually make a shared amiga library by looking at an example amiga library source (There is one on aminet). To easily port programs which you would normally link against the .a library you would also have to make a stubs link library which then uses the shared library. There are other complications. A good start might be to contact the guy who ported SDL to the Amiga.

http://ggreco.interfree.it/sdl.html

Alternatively you can make an ixlibrary from a .a
This is an ixemul shared library and acts more like a shared library does under linux etc. for information about this read the documentation in the source archive for a2ixlibrary which is available on the geekgadgets server.

ftp://ftp.geekgadgets.org/pub/geekga...ry-2.0-src.tgz

you will need a gg development environment to use this. and it does require some work.

10 March 2003, 16:03	#1
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10 March 2003, 19:06	#2
BuZz Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Oxford / UK Age: 47 Posts: 583	There is no quick easy "conversion" process. You can manually make a shared amiga library by looking at an example amiga library source (There is one on aminet). To easily port programs which you would normally link against the .a library you would also have to make a stubs link library which then uses the shared library. There are other complications. A good start might be to contact the guy who ported SDL to the Amiga. http://ggreco.interfree.it/sdl.html Alternatively you can make an ixlibrary from a .a This is an ixemul shared library and acts more like a shared library does under linux etc. for information about this read the documentation in the source archive for a2ixlibrary which is available on the geekgadgets server. ftp://ftp.geekgadgets.org/pub/geekga...ry-2.0-src.tgz you will need a gg development environment to use this. and it does require some work.

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