[lazarus] .so not static?

[Samuel Liddicott]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Weustink [mailto:weus at quicknet.nl]
> Sent: 13 August 1999 06:29 PM
> To: lazarus at miraclec.com
> Subject: RE: [lazarus] .so not static?
>
> ??? Sound familiar. When you look at he options for ld it says
>
>       -l<ar>  Add an archive file ar to the  list  of  files  to
>               link.  This option may be used any number of times.
>               ld will search its  path-list  for  occurrences  of
>               lib<ar>.a for every ar specified.
>
> So it looks like ld is looking for some .a libs,  which arent there (at
> leats i do not have them, it's aout?)
>
> I just replaced every occurance of -lX by path to its .so couter part and
> it worked. It didn't bother about the ins an outs of why.

Ah. What I was told to do was to create symbollic links from the
long-version-containing filename (libglib..so.2.1.0 or something) to
libglib.so and that did it (or installing the .dev rpm does the same thing).

So it seems the linker looks for .a or .so and works fine, and either as you
do explicitly set the present .so name, or as I was told to set a short .so
name will work.

Thanks

Sam