I've been reading about libraries; How to make them, how to use them, the different types of libraries, etc..
When using a shared library, does the program require that library to be installed on the computer after the program has been compiled into an .exe?
Ie.. if somebody downloaded a "Helloworld.exe" that I had compiled on my computer using a shared library (that wasn't part of a standard operating system), would they also need that shared library on their computer for the program to run without errors?
and for Static Libraries, when I compile a program using a static library, does it include in the final binary only the functions of the library that are actually used, or does the compiler add in the entire library?
A test program of mine loads a shared library (.so file). A function call in the shared library throws an exception that I am trying to catch in the main function of my test program. (I know that exception is being thrown for sure, I wrote the library to do that.)
However in the main program, the exception is not being caught. The flow of program goes past the catch block like no error has occurred. I am using g++ and I load the shared file using -l option. Only trying to load the program statically I got the following error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmy-shared-library collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I have created a shared object in Ubuntu (libMYLIB.so). I am now trying to compile a simple test program (testmylib.c) to see if the shared object is properly built. I am getting an error that the build cannot find the shared object. My build command is:
I have a class "Result" with a single template function Set(const std::string& arName, T& val) and a specialization of this function Set<Real>(const std::string& arName, Real& val) where Real is a typedef for double. The class is in a shared library and I use it in my main program. If I do result->Set<GLOBAL::Real>("U", 100.0); the wrong template function is called!
I check this by the output with std::cout.
Maybe it's a problem with the typedef.
If I link the object file of the Result class directly to my main program (no shared library), it works.
I am trying to refresh my memory here as I did some studies many years ago but the results elude me.Also todays c/c++ compilers may have better optimizations.Say I have a static library that includes three obj modules.Each of these object modules has a number of functions. These functions do not reference any other functions within the obj module.My main app links this library but only references one function from each of the object modules.
Question: Are the complete contents of each module linked into my main app or are todays linkers smart enough to just link the functions used?
How to create standalone program. For now I have simple program connecting to MySql Database and when i run it, shows me error, libmysql.dll is missing... When i put libmysql.dll in same folder works. Now my question is, how in code blocks can i compile so i won't require libmysql.dll anymore and be able to use it on any machine.
I have a libcx3d.a which contains my VrmlParser class and other classes which are used by VrmlParser. I have a main.cpp which does this :
VrmlParser vp = new VrmlParser(); double **VOB = vp.getVOB();
When I compile using g++ main.cpp -o main -L. -lcx3d, I get the following errors :
'VrmlParser' was not declared in this scope. expected ';' before vp. 'vp' was not declared in this scope.
There is a header file called "VrmlParser.h" in the static library. Should I include this header file in main.cpp ? If so, will include "VrmlParser.h" work ? I have the .a and .cpp in the same directory. I can't find the header file for the static library.
I have written a program that uses boost in visual studio 2012. The only boost library I used is filesystem by doing.
1)Properties->Linker->General and adding the path or the .lib to the additional dependencies. The libraries, link at compile time.However when i move the exe to a different computer, it doesn't work. Therefore the libraries were dynamically not statically linked. So my question is how do I statically link the filesystem library, so that i can include boost/filesystem.hpp in visual studio 2012?
Is it possible to use & change global variables in a Static Library? For example:
I declare a bool test = true; globally.
Then later in an exported function If the user wants, he can set that test to false. So the program later when checks test if it's true, will notice that it's not true, since one of my function changed it.
There is a file compressor called FreeArc (that has GPL code) and a sub project called Unarc (meant for file extraction only) that is free for any use.
Their source codes can be downloaded from here: [URL] ....
Unarc has a makefile for making a dll. I am trying to make it static instead (.a file), using MinGW, but am failing.
If I use the .o files compiled by the makefile to make one .a file, the decompression methods don't seem to be recognized as they should, so I can't extract anything. These decompression methods are added through static functions called withing the .cpp files of each method, so I guess their code is not being executed.
I have a non-MFC static library which I share between a number of different projects, some non-MFC and some MFC. Currently the static library uses a typedef of std::wstring and std::string for UNICODE and non-UNICODE builds.
After discovering it's possible to use CString in non-MFC applications, by including atlstr.h header, I decided I'd rather that than using stl strings and having to keep converting between the different types. However, I seem to be struggling with linker errors when linking the library with a MFC application.
Can I create a non-MFC static library using CString from atlstr.h and link it with a MFC application?
I've been trying for more than one month to access a method found in a library called libcocosnas_static.a. I'm using Cocos2d-X version 2.0.4. The library has been used many times by my company to make games using cocos2d-1.0.1-x-0.12.0 without any problem.
This is what I've done: 1- I added the include paths of the library to both eclipse and Android.mk 2- Included the .h file using #include "NASPlatformUtil.h" 3- Added the libcocosnas_static.a file to the proj.androidobjlocalarmeabi folder 4- Added "LOCAL_WHOLE_STATIC_LIBRARIES += cocosnas_static" to the Android.mk file 5- Called the function using: NASPlatformUtil:: openUrl("http://xxx.xxx.com/");
I can right click on the function, click Open Declaration and get it without any problem, but the compiler keeps on giving me that dreaded error...
I'm trying out the gmp library by building a simple pi calculation program (original, I know!). On a million digits of Pi I've debugged the program and seem to have about a megabyte too much of memory at the end of the program (I start with around 250k before any allocation begins and end at around 1200).
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { //set a// int digitsofpi =1000000; mpf_set_default_prec(log2(10) *digitsofpi );
I have been trying to find a way around the following:
I am using a library functor to solve the root of a non linear equation. It passes two doubles and the name of a function that contains the equation to be solved.
I use the library opensteer, but I do not know where you should start.
Opensteer is a library written in C ++. My problem is figuring out whether to create a blank project in visual studio and import the library or directly import the library.
I'm attempting to write a little UDP socket library in c++ on linux so a user can just create a new instance of a UDPSocket class, specify destination ip and port, and just connect. Then the user should be able to call send() or receive() in any order they want.. and here I encounter a little problem..
Most of the tutorials for udp socket sending out there include a bind() call when you create your "server" that is supposed to receive data, but the code that send data does not need one. Because I also want my library to support unicast/broadcast/multicast, I have read that I need to set the socket option SO_REUSEADDR on my sockets (since multiple sockets will need to be connected to same destination IP/port for broadcast/multicast)
My question is.. do I need to create 2 socket handles per "UDPSocke in order to make this work? One for sending and one for receiving data? In my code when I try to work with only 1 socket, it is only able to receive stuff from itself on unicast.. Or should I just remove the SO_REUSEADDR when in unicast mode, then try to bind with both sockets, accept that the bind will only work on the 1st socket, and take it from there?
I want to create a C library function that i can directly call in my code from any .c file having main program.following are codes...code of library function "foo.c"
Code:
#include "foo.h" int foo(int x) /* Function definition */ { return x + 5; } header file "foo.h"
Code:
#ifndef FOO_H_ /* Include guard */ #define FOO_H_ int foo(int x); /* An example function declaration */ }
[code]....
to use this i have to compile the file in below manner...
Code: gcc -o my_app main.c foo.c
My concern here is that i want to compile the main.c and use function without compiling foo.c with i.e.
Code: gcc -o my_app main.c
any user of this function should only compile his program and should be able to use the function, the foo.c file should remain hidden from him
my system is Linux 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 28 01:54:56 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
