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Linking Static libraries to one DLL
I am trying to use the Open Cascade library to create a model converter (DLL). The Open Cascade library contains many DLLs and Libs
I have specified the additional libraries
TKDEGLTF.lib
TKMesh.lib
...
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.so file built on same CPU but different EC2 instances lead to missing symbols
I am building a wheel of PyTorch from source, based on their https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/v2.6.0/.ci/manywheel/build_common.sh CI build script. I tested on a "local" instance of a ...
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How can I tell my compiler or linker, that some symbol reference is only necessary for some function?
Suppose I'm working a library; say it's in C for simplicity. This library exposes and defines two functions:
f(), which calls an auxiliary function aux(), declared but not defined by my library.
g() ...
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How does cargo and/or link.exe interact together to find a static lib on Windows?
I have a project that fails to build.
PS C:\Users\me\Data\personal\rust\sdl-learn> cargo build
Compiling sdl-learn v0.1.0 (C:\Users\me\Data\personal\rust\sdl-learn)
error: linking with `link.exe`...
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CPU Mode switches in qemu emulated machine. Undefined behavior. 16 bit code gets executed as 32 bit mode after a far jump
https://github.com/PoutineSyropErable/MapleKernel
The BareBones dir.
debug2 branch.
e5cf6d69e3f9f053 commit hash.
How is a proper 32PM -> 16RM mode switch done on modern x86_64? My 16 bit code is ...
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write(2) syscall returns EFAULT for string in .rodata on OpenBSD 7.3--7.8
I'm writing a hello-world program in i386 assembly for OpenBSD 7.8. The program works if the string (buf argument of write(2)) is in .data or on the stack, but write(2) returns EFAULT (== 14) if the ...
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How to access global C variables from within standalone assembler modules with the GCC toolchain for Atmel AVR32?
I am currently developing software for the Atmel AVR32 AT32UC3C0512C. The software consists of C modules (.c files) as well as standalone assembler modules (.S files). My IDE is Microchip Studio 7.0....
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How to override the -fuse-ld flag in CLion?
I have a CMake based Windows library project that only links successfully with the MSVC link.exe due to some obscure third party library dependencies. However, I want to compile the project using the ...
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Cannot build shared library with static member function declared in header [duplicate]
Minimum reproducible example:
// dynamic.hpp
class Test {
private:
static void update();
};
// dynamic.cpp
#include "dynamic.hpp"
#include <iostream>
void Test::update() {
...
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Linker error when importing AWS libraries in Unreal Engine
I am trying to get users to be able to log in via a Cognito account and use those credentials to make calls on a backend API. To that end I have been trying to import the Cognito libraries in an ...
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Is there a robust way to version all exported symbols with version script without changing the visibility?
GNU documentation is really poor and is worded in a way that seem to imply that you can only assign version only to symbols that are listed explicitly either under global: or local:, but those are ...
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Link a symbol in C++ to a metadata-defined address
Background
I am working on a C++ project that is injected (via our own loader program that creates the process and loads the code and patches from a DLL the project is compiled to) into a closed-...
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avr-gcc: error: -fuse-linker-plugin is not supported in this configuration
I'm cross-compiling avr-gcc statically (in order not to depend on Android linker) to work on aarch64 android devices.
gcc is compiled with the flags:
generic_arm64:/data/data/myapp/files/sdk/hardware/...
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dlsym Not using the symbols loaded by handle, but those already known instead [closed]
I have a project written in C++ which consists in a main application which loads a few plugins. The overview of the problem is as follows:
The plugins, which are shared objects (.so), load without any ...
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Strange gaps in ARM GCC linker sections
TLDR: On an embedded system, I have to place certain buffers to their own section to be used with DMA. However, the resulting section seems to contain unexplainable gaps. What could be going wrong?
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Is it possible to have GCC inline vectorized trig functions?
Cosine and sine are computed with Horner's method and a Chebyshev polynomial, e.g. a0 + x(a1 + x(a2 + ...))). The fused-multiply add instructions this generates form a dependency chain, meaning we can ...
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Visual C++ link weirdness with bcrypt.dll
On Windows 11, the BCrypt library contains the Microsoft cryptographic functions. I have noticed a unique behaviour of the linker when linking against bcrypt.dll and I would appreciate the opinion of ...
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How can I configure a rust application to link against a different version of the CRT?
I have a rust application that I wish to link against a few C++ static libraries. I have my build.rs script triggering the compilation of my C++ libraries which I then link using a cargo command:
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Is it possible to link a dynamic library using a higher version of glibc in a compilation environment with a lower version of glibc?
The scenario is this: My compilation environment is unified, using the lower-level glibc_2.18. I want to depend on a CUDA .so file compiled using the higher-level glibc_2.27.
My runtime environment ...
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f2py from numpy 2.3.2: Linking a fortran 77 code with many subroutines in separate files fails
I have a large fortran 77 code, "NSCool", distributed among many files which I compile into a python package using f2py. It used to work nicely with python 3.7, then it took me weeks to have ...
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Why doesn't RTLD_LOCAL solve this symbol conflict when loading dynamic libraries?
I have one dynamic library with the function:
extern "C" void start() {
}
And a second dynamic library with the function:
extern "C" void start() {
}
Exactly the same. I open up ...
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Cordova and Xcode ios how to modify existing podfile post_install config
How can I add post_install configurations to an existing podfile that already has a post_install section? I need to add a line to fix a build clang ld linker error to debug-iphonesimulator myapp....
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When inline function definition and extern function declaration are all present in one .c file, no link error is observed
Even though this might look like duplication, I'd claim that it isn't.
Why does a compiler make the Foo function, which is defined in foo.c as inline double Foo() { return 1.2; }, a global function if ...
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Shared memory between two elf files
I have bare metal project with 2 elf executables loaded in memory.
And I want to share some memory between them (with code and data).
Is it eligible to add object file in some specific section for ...
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Linking Zig and Go for windows API
I'm trying to link a zig static library with golang. here is my build.zig
const std = @import("std");
pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
const windows = b.option(bool, "windows&...
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How do relocations work for variables initialized to a value that requires relocation itself?
If I have the following code:
#include <stdio.h>
static int order = 5;
char *and_the = "DDD";
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("%d\n", order);
printf("%s\...
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iOS archiving for release strips away global symbols
I have a cocoapods library.
This library has some C functions that I have exposed globally:
#define EXPORT __attribute__((visibility("default"), used, retain)) extern "C"
EXPORT ...
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Error dynamically loading libatomic.so with musl
Consider this simple build:
#!/bin/sh -eu
: ${CC:=gcc}
cat > libmain.c <<'EOF'
#include <stdatomic.h>
struct two{ long a,b; };
_Atomic struct two atwo;
int main(){ atomic_exchange(&...
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in CLion, how can I choose a linker other than my C/C++ compiler?
I'm using CLion to build a C++ or a C project. Looking at the project's CMake Profiles, I notice I can choose a toolchain; and looking at the toolchains dialog, I see an entry for choosing a C ...
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How to build muparser as a static library in CMake? [duplicate]
I've added muparser to my CMake project using the FetchContent module as follows:
FetchContent_Declare(
muparser
GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/beltoforion/muparser.git
GIT_TAG master
)
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How to specify custom link line/link order in CMake?
TL;DR: Is there a way to specify custom link order when CMake managed dependencies seems not enough?
I'm developing a toy OS for fun and having trouble linking in the GCC crt* files responsible for ...
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ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64, clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1
I've been using the library SPHinxsys on my MacOS Intel. It worked in the past. However, just recently this error always appears when building:
Linking CXX executable t..._ck/bin/...
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RISC-V GCC Force Linker Relaxation with GP Register to Address Static Data
I'm writing a bare-metal firmware for a virtual RISC-V SoC. Below is code that communicates with a physical device on the SoC and it is using constant data from the my_data array that sits in ROM. The ...
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Why does setjmp/longjmp cause 0xC0000028 in LLVM IR?
I write a compiler that generates LLVM IR code and then .obj file. Then I link it with some required .lib files. (msvcrt.lib, ucrt.lib, vcruntime.lib). I declared setjmp and longjmp there as follows:
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Cannot link to just libglfw.so (Have to include libglfw.so.3 as well)
I am making a small application with glfw. I'm not using CMake and instead opted to make a custom build system for more control, but I'm getting an error when trying to run my program:
error while ...
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iOS Dylib crashes when published to testflight with CODESIGNING 2 Invalid Page
This is a lengthy one. I have basically compiled a Rust binary into a dylib and packaged into a .xcframework that contains per arch .frameworks. This loads correctly when run from Xcode into a real ...
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MontaVista GCC linker throws `cannot find -lgcc_s`
I have the task of containerizing an ancient embedded build plan which uses the MontaVista GCC toolchain released in 2006. Unfortunately, the senior insists on using a setup similar to the old build ...
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Duplicates found when linking C++ libraries [duplicate]
I've made a few new classes for help in reading CSV files in a C++ program, based on code suggested in another stackoverflow post here. Here is the file declaring and defining the classes, along with ...
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Scatter File Organization and Compiling
I'd like to preface this with the understanding that I'm not the most knowledgeable on scatter files, but I've been learning a lot in the ARM forums about them.
I'm working with the STM32F429 ...
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Can linking be nested (e.g. by using intermediate object files)? [duplicate]
Commonly the linker is only invoked once. A linear list of input files can be specified for symbol resolution; there are flags for looping through the linker inputs. But for more sophisticated ...
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Linker placement order is reversed in map file after compiling
I am adding a linker section in the TI arm clang linker and I have added by following
MEMORY
{
TEST_SECTION ( RWIX ) : ORIGIN = 0x41C00000 , LENGTH = 0x00007800
}
--retain="*(....
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__DATA_CONST segment missing SG_READ_ONLY flag
I'm trying to import a .NET project from iOS native project.
During build time I'm getting linker error: ld: __DATA_CONST segment missing SG_READ_ONLY flag in .../Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/[...
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Does the specific linker used affect how asm file is interpreted?
Wondering if the specific linker used affects how asm file is interpreted.
I am using NASM on windows 11, 64-bit, x64 processor. The linker I have is GoLink, but I'm not sure if that's the most ...
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Libc removed from cyclic dependency group during linking
I am cross-compiling an example project on Linux to target a CortexA72. My project consists of the following files:
/* main.cpp */
int main() { return 0; }
/* syscalls.cpp */
#include <sys/types.h&...
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Verifying no footprint on production code when optionally adding fault injection
I have the following task: Given source code A, modify it into source code B such that it can optionally enable fault injection. When the fault injection is disabled, it shall output the exact same ...
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Conflict with QPoint in Qt5Cored.lib despite not including Qt in Visual Studio project (using vcpkg)
I'm working on a simple SDL2 project in Visual Studio using vcpkg for dependency management.
In my vcpkg installation, I have both Qt5 and SDL2 installed. I've used vcpkg integrate install to ...
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GAS creates a PLT relocation entry for call to an extern symbol?
I assembled the following file with GAS, the GNU assembler:
.extern foo
.global bar
.section .text
bar:
call foo
ret
In the object file it produced there is a relocation entry of type ...
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1
answer
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Error link 2001 on CLSID from my another DLL
I have 2 DLLs. I want create instance of class in my second DLL that I declare at .idl file of first library. But I get Error Link 2001 on CLSID, when try to link second DLL. I'm linking with first ...
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Conflicting OPENSSL versions under Linux
I'm building a project linking both with QtNetwork (Qt6) and Python library (3.8).
At runtime, I get the error:
my_prg_bin: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libk5crypto.so.3: undefined symbol: EVP_KDF_ctrl,...
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Why does my code give multiple definitions error?
I am trying to build the following code on my computer but I run into a lot of errors. The error says that g_tagParams and g_loggerparams are multiply defined in many of the functions. But these two ...
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