Re: Static linking of GNAT library

[Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>]

colvert@elmco.com (Paul Colvert) writes:

> My assigned SG engineer wrote back to tell me that "if there is C code
> mixed in, then statically linking the files is impossible as of IRIX
> 6.5." Yes, we do have some C code linked in to our simulation. Does
> that mean I will be forced to distribute the shared object library?
> Some of our customers have the old Ada 95 1.3 compiler installed. I
> don't think I can have both libraries installed!

No. But (on other Unixes, I don't know IRIX) you can play with the
library path: either LD_LIBRARY_PATH, defined first --

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/where/your/shared/library/is
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  your_program

or perhaps LD_PRELOAD

  LD_PRELOAD=/where/your/shared/library/is/libwhatever.so
  export LD_PRELOAD
  your_program

(both strongly affected by whether you are root/the program is setuid
root)

HTH

-Simon