Re: Building Secondary Modules

[Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@...>]

2010/6/23 Antonio Scuri <scuri@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>:
>  I have two modules. One is straight forward to build. But the second one
> depends on C functions that were implemented in the first module.
>
>  So when linking the second module in Linux I have to add the first module
> using "-lmodule1". But it fails, because the first module is called
> "module1.so" and not "libmodule1.so".
>
>  I know there are "alternative" solutions, like creating a symbolic link
> (but do I have to distribute the link? I check using ldd that it depends on
> the link, not to the actual file. Ugly...), or use standard names and change
> the LUA_CPATH (like I do in IUP). Or even build a base library to store
> those functions and link both libraries to that library, but that's nonsense
> just to store a couple of functions.
>
>  So I would like to know if there are other solutions. I searched the Wiki
> with no success.

You can use -l: (notice the colon) instead of -l to specify an exact
filename to ld.