And on many platforms (well, at least a few years ago) a "shared" library doesn't have to be PIC. The dynamic loader can do relocation when it loads the file. (Then it can't be shared.) But this was a few years ago on Solaris and BSDs, it could be different now. -- Lennart Sven Panne wrote:
Am Samstag, 3. Dezember 2005 14:48 schrieb Lennart Augustsson:
Can't you unpack the ar library and then link the object files into a shared library?
On most platforms the code in a *.a library is not shared library code, e.g. it is not PIC or something like that. Nevertheless, I think that the *.o files GHCi loads are not exactly shared libraries, they are incrementally linked relocatable object code (correct me if I'm wrong here, the details of shared libraries are still a kind of black art...). So you might have luck with unpacking and re-linking like that:
ar x libblah.a ld -r -x -o /my/new/blah.o *.o
The linker flags for doing this vary, depending on the platform, you can have a look at GHC's autoconf magic for hints if it doesn't work like mentioned above.
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