Subject: Re: Shared Library support
To: None <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 02/06/2002 17:40:21
On 02/06/2002 07:49:14 AM PST Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>
>On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:37:03AM -0000, Peter Stewart wrote:
>
> > How is shared library support for sh3/4 going? This would be very cool to
> > have. Want to do some new stuff but require shared library support,
> > otherwise run out of memory very quickly. Good to hear that the new
> > toolchain is in and it produces solid code (hopefully -O2, is solid too.)
> > Looking forward to shared library support.
>
>I'm tinkering w/ shared library support as I have time.  Marcus added
>support for it in ld.elf_so (I've committed his changes), and gcc-3.x
>generates PIC code, but I'm having some trouble ... dynamically linked
>programs are dumping core.  I've been too busy w/ Paying Work to track
>it down, but I hope to spend some more time on it perhaps this weekend.

How would I procede, if I want to try out the current state?

- binutils from NetBSD cvs?
- get gcc from gcc cvs (3.0 branch or trunk?)
- get libexec/ld.elf_so from NetBSD cvs and try to compile it with
  above gcc
- get lib/libc from NetBSD and compile it

something else?

regards,
chris