Re: (GSoC) Compiling and loading gEDA/gschem plugin [was: Re: gsoc - gnucap project]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Felix Salfelder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:45:31AM +0530, [email protected] wrote:
>> I think makefile doesn't compile with -shared flag and hence the issue.
>
> yes. since the module-compile/install/load infrastructure is still
> missing, i decided to simply add it to *_SRCS in Makefile.am. the
> resulting .o's cannot be loaded, but get linked into the gnucap
> executable and need not be loaded.
>
> this is a hack, but IMO finding geda is more important than having
> dyanmically loadable shared objects.
>
> regards
> felix


On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:59 AM, al davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 August 2012, [email protected] wrote:
>
> The suffix is ".so" (shared object) not ".o".
>
> Make has a collection of default rules, so even though
> lang_geda.o is not explicitly listed in the makefile, make finds
> a rule to make it.  Since .o is normally not "shared", the
> "-shared" flag is not used.

Okay, but In order for makefile to compile to a shared object file, we
need to specifiy that, right?

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