Quick Answer: How Do You Create a Shared Object in Linux?

Quick Answer: How Do You Create a Shared Object in Linux?
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How do you create a shared object?

To create a shared object suitable for linking against:

  1. Compile the source files for the library using the -shared option to qcc.
  2. To create the library from the individual object modules, simply combine them with the linker (this is done via the qcc compiler driver as well, also using the -shared command-line option).

What is a shared object Linux?

Shared Libraries are the libraries that can be linked to any program at run-time. They provide a means to use code that can be loaded anywhere in the memory. Once loaded, the shared library code can be used by any number of programs.

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