[Avila] Snapgear arm linux toolchain with shared library support

[Tom Houweling]

Thanks for clarifying. 'ldd' confirms what you are saying. 
Are you aware of a toolchain that was build against uClibc and/or uClibc++?

Tom 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Lang [mailto:chris at unixstudios.net] 
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 00:01
> To: 'Avila'
> Subject: RE: [Avila] Snapgear arm linux toolchain with shared 
> library support
> 
> Tom,
> 	I don't believe there is a snapgear toolchain that was 
> built without the --disable-shared flag. However, this does 
> not mean that every executable is statically linked. What 
> this means is that the libs of gcc will only be built 
> statically. Which means that only the libs of libstdc++, 
> libffi, and libobjc of the snapgear toolchain are static. So 
> if you have a program build against those particular libs 
> then they will be included statically.
> However, your other binaries that build against libs like 
> libc, etc will be dynamicly linked.
> 
> 
> - Chris L
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Houweling [mailto:Tom.Houweling at SkyWare.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:30 PM
> To: avila at lists.unixstudios.net
> Subject: [Avila] Snapgear arm linux toolchain with shared 
> library support
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I need a toolchain which supports dynamic linking on a 
> Gateworks Avila 2342.
>  
> The snapgear arm-linux-gcc 3.3.2 was compiled with 
> "--disable-shared" which means that every executable is 
> statically linked, which makes them huge.
>  
> However the "file" command still says the following:
>  
> #> file foobar
> foobar: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, ARM, version 1 (ARM), for 
> GNU/Linux 2.0.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>  
>  
> Is there a snapgear specific gcc version available that was 
> build without "--disable-shared"?
>  
> Tom
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