| Subject: Dynamic Linking under HP-UX | 
 | From: "C. Derek Fields" <derek@gamekeeper.bellcore.com> | 
 | Date: Thu, 08 Sep 94 14:14:07 -0400 | 
 |  | 
 | There are two important points.  First, the python executable must be | 
 | linked with the -E option to explicitly export all symbols.  This | 
 | works with the vanilla interpreter, but I am not sure how friendly it | 
 | will be when I try to embed the interpreter in a larger application. | 
 | It may be necessary to hand tune the exports using the -e option. | 
 | Anyway, the additional flag to $(CC) is "-Wl,-E", which passes the -E | 
 | flag to the compiler.  My link line (from an actual run) looks like | 
 | this: | 
 |  | 
 | cc config.o -Wl,-E libModules.a  ../Python/libPython.a  ../Objects/libObjects.a ../Parser/libParser.a   -lm  -ldld -o python | 
 |  | 
 | [Guido's note: as of Python 1.5, replace the four libraries with | 
 | ../libpython$(VERSION).a] | 
 |  | 
 | Second, the dynamic module must be compiled with the +z option to make | 
 | it position independent and then linked into a shared library: | 
 |  | 
 | ld -b -o <modName>module.sl <object list> | 
 |  | 
 | The -b tells the linker to produce a shared library. |