I’m trying to understand why libtool runs ranlib when installing a static library. This is an example from the link: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Installing-libraries.html But, isn’t the index table already created and shouldn’t it be just a simple copy operation? I found running ranlib at the end of the copy redundant as the library already has an index. Thanks. Answer Back in the
Tag: static-libraries
How to list dependencies of c/c++ static library?
For a static library (.a file), how to list the module-level dependencies of it? I know for a shared library (.so), we can use objdump or readelf to do this: or I can get something like NEEDED libOne.so NEEDED libc.so.6 But for a static library, I can only get the dependencies in symbol-level, for example, by running I will get
Error while loading shared libraries: libboost_iostreams.so.1.59.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I am running a C++ executable on ubuntu. The executable links into some boost libraries. This is the output when I attempt to run the binary: What should be the future coarse of action i should take to remove this error. Answer Let’s assume your library is being exist but not in standard paths and you’re getting this error while
nWipe Package compiled in Centos not working in Busybox embedded linux
I have compiled nwipe open source utility in Centos. Once compiled it works absolutely fine on the machine where it was compiled. I have also copied the compiled package to another machine running Centos along with required libraries and it works fine. I have tried to package this utility to work with Busybox RAMBOX embedded linux. The purpose of this