HP UX Software Transition Kit (STK) manual Contents

Contents
About This Document	13
Intended Audience	13
Document conventions and symbols	13
Related Information	13
HP Encourages Your Comments	14
Document Organization	14
1 Compiling and Linking Programs on HP-UX	16
Compiling Programs on HP-UX: An Example	16
Overview	16
Looking Inside a Compiler	18
What is an Object File?	18
Local Definitions	19
Global Definitions	19
External References	19
Compiler-Linker Interaction	19
Linking Programs on HP-UX	21
The crt0.o Startup File	21
The Program's Entry Point	22
The a.out File	22
Magic Numbers (PA-RISC ONLY)	22
File Permissions	23
Linking with Libraries	23
Library Naming Conventions	24
Default Libraries	24
The Default Library Search Path	24
Link Order	24
Running the Program	25
Loading Programs: exec	25
Binding Routines to a Program	25
Deferred Binding is the Default	25
Linker Thread-Safe Features	26
Shared library loading and unloading in multi-threaded applications	26
2 Determining How to Link Programs or Libraries (Linker Tasks)	27
Using the Compiler to Link	28
Changing the Default Library Search Path with -Wl,-L	28
Example Using -Wl,-L	28
Getting Verbose Output with -v	29
Passing Linker Options from the Compiler Command with -Wl	29
Example Using -Wl	29
Renaming the Output File with -o	29
Specifying Libraries with -l	29
Linking with the crt0.o Startup File in 32-bit mode (PA-RISC)	30
Suppressing the Link-Edit Phase with -c	30
Using Linker Commands	30
Linking with the crt0.o Startup File	30
Changing the Default Library Search Path with -L, LPATH, and $ORIGIN	30
Overriding the Default Linker Search Path with LPATH	30
Augmenting the Default Linker Search Path with -L	31
Augmenting the Default Linker Search Path with +origin	31
Using $ORIGIN	31

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