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Re: Linking to external static (!) library
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c. |
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Re: Linking to external static (!) library |
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Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:47:48 +0200 |
On 19 Apr 2011, at 20:03, Martin Helm wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 19. April 2011, 19:23:53 schrieb TOT:
>> Hi everyone.
>> There is a big static C library (several lib*.a files). It contains
>> references to MPI library (I'm not sure how)
>> There is one header file (c*.h), containing several other header files and
>> so on.
>> This library compiled using gcc (compatible with octave).
>>
>> Lets assume that in the library "myopen" function exists. I want to call it
>> in the octave and return the value of it (say 1 if everything is OK and -1
>> on error).
>>
>> I'm tying to use OCT files, but I end up with an error from ld: "recompile
>> with -fPIC".
>> The library is huge, makefiles are huge and -fPIC option to be placed in
>> too many places, so I don't want to do this.
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> Is there any way to link to this library (via tweaking mkoctfile or by
>> other means, but not recompiling the library)?
>>
>> Is it the same for matlab?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anar.
>>
> I can be wrong since I never tried it (what you want to try), but I doubt it
> is possible since the man page of mkoctfile explicitely states
> "mkoctfile is used to compile C, C++, or Fortran source code in to a
> dynamically loadable .oct file for octave"
> You will have no luck creating a dynamically loadable file when linking
> against
> a library built without -fPIC.
Actually it is possible, what needs to be dynamic is the final oct file but it
can include object code from a static library.
I think we need more information to be able to help. What are the exact
commands you used to build and link the .oct file?
Have you tried something like:
mkoctfile -c -I/path_to_your_libray/include octfile.cpp
mkoctfile octfile.o /path_to_your_libray/lib/libraryname.a -o octfile.oct
?
HTH,
c.
- Linking to external static (!) library, TOT, 2011/04/19
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, Martin Helm, 2011/04/19
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, TOT, 2011/04/19
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library,
c. <=
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, Martin Helm, 2011/04/19
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, TOT, 2011/04/20
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, Martin Helm, 2011/04/20
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, TOT, 2011/04/20
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, John W. Eaton, 2011/04/20
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, TOT, 2011/04/20
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, John W. Eaton, 2011/04/20
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, TOT, 2011/04/20
- Re: Linking to external static (!) library, Przemek Klosowski, 2011/04/20