Re: Undefined reference to glib_E

["Alexander Camek" <Alexander.Camek@Elektrobit.com>]

"Stefan Bellon" <sbellon@sbellon.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:20070326155702.6c20c0b4@cube.tz.axivion.com...
> Alexander Camek wrote:
>> So it seems i have to use an import library, because it seems that
>> the build will not work like under unix.
>> I first build under unix my "executable" and then use many shared
>> objects.
>
> If you build DLLs, then those DLLs need to see all symbols they refer
> to. If they depend on other DLLs, that's usually no problem ...
>
>> Do I need in that case the previous named "import library", because
>> windows is doing the whole a little bit diffrent?
>
> ... but when your DLL indeed depends on the main executable, then you
> need an import library. We have such a case as well. In the Linker
> section of the main executable we have:
>
>   package Linker is
>      case Common.Target_OS is
>         when "linux-gnu" =>
>            for Default_Switches ("ada") use
>              Common.Linker'Default_Switches ("ada") &
>              "-Wl,--export-dynamic";
>         when "solaris2.8" | "solaris2.9" | "solaris2.10" =>
>            for Default_Switches ("ada") use
>              Common.Linker'Default_Switches ("ada");
>         when "mingw32" | "cygwin" =>
>            for Default_Switches ("ada") use
>              Common.Linker'Default_Switches ("ada") &
>              "-Wl,--export-all-symbols,--out-implib,main.lib";
>      end case;
>   end Linker;
>
> On GNU/Linux you need the --export-dynamic if you need to get at the
> symbols of the main executable from plugins you load via dlopen. On
> Solaris this is default. On Windows, you can see the commands that
> generate the import library.
>
> Then, in the library that depends on the symbols of the main
> executable, we have the following in the project file:
>
>   case Common.OS is
>      when "UNIX" =>
>         null;
>      when "Windows_NT" =>
>         for Library_Options
>           use GtkAda.Linker'Linker_Options &
>             (Common.Global_Obj & "main.lib");
>   end case;
>
> The Common.Global_Obj is the object directory of your main project as
> the import library has been placed there.
>
> I hope this helps.

Yes, this was my problem. Thanks for your help. Now I can build the whole.

Greetings

Alexander