Re: AIX: More troubles

[Roumen Petrov]

Daniel Sands wrote:
> I have an executable that dlopens modules, and the modules make use of 
> symbols provided by the executable.  Since AIX does not export symbols 
> unless either it has to (if needed for direct linkage to a shared 
> object) or you REALLY want it to (either by -bexpall or by providing 
> an exports list), these symbols don't resolve.  So it either crashes 
> (if compiled without -brtl) or complains about unresolved references.  
> Is there a Libtool-standard way to make the executable export all of 
> its symbols?

The standard is to add libtool flag -export-dynamic to executable 
LDFLAGS but may be libtool is not ported to you linker.

For GNU linker:
./libtool --config | grep export_dynamic
export_dynamic_flag_spec="\${wl}--export-dynamic"


Roumen