man gcc:
-rdynamic
Pass the flag -export-dynamic to the ELF linker, on targets that support it. This instructs the linker to add all symbols, not only used ones, to the
dynamic symbol table. This option is needed for some uses of "dlopen" or to allow obtaining backtraces from within a program.
man ld:
-E
--export-dynamic
--no-export-dynamic
When creating a dynamically linked executable, using the -E option or the --export-dynamic option causes the linker to add all symbols to the dynamic
symbol table. The dynamic symbol table is the set of symbols which are visible from dynamic objects at run time.
If you do not use either of these options (or use the --no-export-dynamic option to restore the default behavior), the dynamic symbol table will normally
contain only those symbols which are referenced by some dynamic object mentioned in the link.
If you use "dlopen" to load a dynamic object which needs to refer back to the symbols defined by the program, rather than some other dynamic object, then
you will probably need to use this option when linking the program itself.
example code:
bar.c
extern void foo(void);
void bar(void)
{
foo();
}
main.c
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void foo(void)
{
puts("Hello world");
}
int main(void)
{
void * dlh = dlopen("./libbar.so", RTLD_NOW);
if (!dlh) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", dlerror());
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
void (*bar)(void) = dlsym(dlh,"bar");
if (!bar) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", dlerror());
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
bar();
return 0;
}
Makefile
.PHONY: all clean test
LDEXTRAFLAGS ?=
all: prog
bar.o: bar.c
gcc -c -Wall -fpic -o $@ $<
libbar.so: bar.o
gcc -shared -o $@ $<
main.o: main.c
gcc -c -Wall -o $@ $<
prog: main.o | libbar.so
gcc $(LDEXTRAFLAGS) -o $@ $< -L. -lbar -ldl
clean:
rm -f *.o *.so prog
test: prog
./$<
without -rdynamic
:
$ make test
gcc -c -Wall -o main.o main.c
gcc -c -Wall -fpic -o bar.o bar.c
gcc -shared -o libbar.so bar.o
gcc -o prog main.o -L. -lbar -ldl
./prog
./libbar.so: undefined symbol: foo
Makefile:23: recipe for target 'test' failed
with -rdynamic
:
$ make clean
rm -f *.o *.so prog
$ make test LDEXTRAFLAGS=-rdynamic
gcc -c -Wall -o main.o main.c
gcc -c -Wall -fpic -o bar.o bar.c
gcc -shared -o libbar.so bar.o
gcc -rdynamic -o prog main.o -L. -lbar -ldl
./prog
Hello world