The simplest method (maybe the only method) is:
1. set a break point in main()
2. list the source code or symbol name of the shared library, and set the break point.
You could use add-symbol-file to load the symbols of the shared library. Use ldd, you can see the link address of this shared library, this is the address for the add-symbol-file command. But even you specify the correct address, because at that time, this library has not been loaded in memory, you can not set a break point. It will prompt such error “Cannot access memory at address 0x00xx00xx”.
Another way, you can set a signal handler in gdb, e.g., (gdb) handle SIGINT stop. Then when you press Ctrl+C, the debugger will intercept the SIGINT signal to debuging application, then it will stop, you can set break point at that time. Use kill -l, you could list all signals in your system.