Creating shared objects

To create a shared object suitable for linking against:

Compile the source files for the library using the -shared option to qcc.
To create the library from the individual object modules, simply combine them with the linker (this is done via the qcc compiler driver as well, also using the -shared command-line option).

Note: Make sure that all objects and “static” libs that are pulled into a .so are position-independent as well (i.e., also compiled with -shared).

If you make a shared library that has to static-link against an existing library, you can't static-link against the .a version (because those libraries themselves aren't compiled in a position-independent manner). Instead, there's a special version of the libraries that has a capital “S” just before the .a extension. For example, instead of linking against libsocket.a, you'd link against libsocketS.a. We recommend that you don't static-link, but rather link against the .so shared object version.