From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 21 19:56:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA09695 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:56:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mbg.vsnl.net.in (mbg.vsnl.net.in.in-addr.arpa [202.54.12.3] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA09686 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:56:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rewdale@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in) Received: from giasbg01.vsnl.net.in ([202.54.12.17]) by mbg.vsnl.net.in (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA9947 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:25:39 +0000 Received: from localhost by giasbg01.vsnl.net.in; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/20Feb95-0832PM) id AA17398; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 09:28:40 +0500 Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 09:28:38 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: Rewdale Precision tools To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: wanted help on building shared object library (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 07:39:10 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: Rewdale Precision tools To: davidg@freebsd.org Cc: rewdale@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in Subject: wanted help on building shared object library Dear Sir, I`am building a program called Xconnect under FreeBSD, for this i require to build shared object libraries. the following are my questions.. 1) Where do i get documentation about building shared object library ?. 2) the actual mechanism of its working under Freebsd i mean to say how ld.so loads it and how it is linked and how it is accessed ?. (please give me references to books , etc)... 3) what is somelib.sa.revno ? 4) referring to qn 3 for what `sa` stands for in it because i have seen such files under solaris , linux etc but not under freebsd..? 5) Is Pthreads also supported under FreeBSD ?. Thanking you. Deepak.s.bhonsle..