I'm using autotools as build system for a library of mine. Recently library is ported to Windows. Library compiles and links successfully though I encountered a strange error. There is only static ...

I'm currently working on a C++ project which relies on recursive automake for building. I want to build a shared library and the Makefile.am in the src directory of the library looks like # ... ...

First, I'd like to let you know that it is my first post on StackOverflow, so I hope that I won't make a fool of myself by asking a very stupid question. I've been googling about this problem for a...

I'm attempting to build the expat (2.0.0) XML parsing library for an ARM embedded machine running busybox 1.13, and during the ./configure, I get the error: checking if libtool supports shared lib...

I have a setup that does not work, and I have no idea what I am doing wrong here - I am trying to convert a project from handcrafted Makefiles to autotools, and I think I have most of it set up co...

I'm using MinGW-w64 with POSIX threads. I want to build GNU gettext with POSIX threads and as shared libraries (DLLs in this case). However, when one builds runtime artifacts (such as DLLs or execu...

When compiling binaries from source, what are the real-world differences between generating PIC objects or not? At what point down the road would someone say, "I should have generated/used PIC obje...

How can I use --whole-archive with libtool without it being reordered? Background: I'm compiling Extrae (performance profiling) from sources which depends on Dyninst which depends on libdwarf, whi...

I am going to use NetCDF in windows and I think it has to be compiled with MinGW since my main program and all other libraries are compiled with MinGW already. But when I used MinGW (gcc version 4...

I'm compiling a project with automake, but when attempting to run valgrind on the resulting executable, it does not behave as expected, appearing to run 8 times before actually executing the code t...

I have a library (libfoo) that is compiled using libtool into two objects: libfoo.a and libfoo.so. I have to create, using libtool also, another library (libbar) that will be a single shared libra...

I want to build a shared library that uses ZipArchive using GNU Autotools but I'm having this problem: Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lziparch. I have the capability to ...

When it comes to using the terminal to build libraries manually and such I unfortunately do not have much experience and I'm stuck a bit here. I've downloaded a library for objective-c which came ...

What are libtool's .la files for? How are they used with a shared object?

I have a couple of C++ classes and I want to compile them into a shared library using autotools and libtool. These are my configure.ac and Makefile.am files: configure.ac: AC_PREREQ(2.67) AC_INIT...

I'm quite new to libtool stuff. I have a problem that building my project requires libtool 1.5, but the default libtool on my system (debian, squeeze) is 2.2. What I did is I've installed libtool ...

I'm seeing an odd issue when trying to use gdb to debug a test program for a package built with libtool. If I run libtool --mode=execute gdb .libs/libfoo.so and ask it to list the source of some fu...

I am running Linux, Ubuntu 10.04 . It is not the first time I try to use autotools. I did a lot of researches and follow a lot of tutorials : here is what I want to do, what I tried and what issue...

First i have "include_HEADERS = 'my public headers'" and "libfoobar_la_SOURCES = 'private sources' 'private headers'". All is fine. It compile/install/link. But when i do "nm -C my_instaed_lib.so"...

so I have some code that uses dlopen for loading libraries, and I want it to work on a bluegene system, but I don't have a bluegene to test things on, and I've never directly worked with one. Does ...

I am using the GNU autotools (including automake!) for my project. I would like to know if I could create a static and a shared library using libtool? Or would the declarations be separate? Would t...

Is it possible to use gcc precompiled headers in projects using automake / libtool? Adding new make rules to build precompiled headers is not difficult. The issue is that you also have to add comp...

I am currently recompiling gtk+ and dependencies from source (I have no other choices). All my custom packages are installed in a specific custom point (let's call it /packages) (it can seem odd b...

I have a set of cpp files that I want to compile directly into a binary and also to compile into a shared library. I have bin_PROGRAMS=mybin lib_LTLIBRARIES=libmylib.la COMMON_SOURCES=f1.cpp f2...

This is about plugin features in my program. I need a C++ class(and object) in a plugin could be used by main module through an interface. The interface inheritance like this: typedef struct _rwd_...