Question

I have built libshared.so with is dependent on libshared_dependent.so

Now, I am compiling app.bin which is using libshared.so, Now at compile time gcc wants me to specify -lshared_dependent other wise it gives error that some symbols not found.

Is there any way by which, At compile time I don’t need to specify -lshared_dependent, I want that just specifying -lshared works?

Answer 1

You just need to link libshared.so to libshared_dependent.so when you are producing libshared.so.

gcc -shared -o libshared.so -lshared_dependant file1.o file2.o 

This way, when you link your app to libshared.so it’ll also link to whatever libshared.so depends on