can newlib be a shared library on ppc platform?

[Mark Hatle]

Liu Fred-a18596 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need a small libc in our embedded system, so I compiled newlib.
> But it seems that newlib only support static library on ppc platform.
> Is it true?

I believe newlib is barely a C library, (it was the last time I looked at it)

I would suggest you investigate uclibc and see if that will do what you need.
(There is a version of uclibc that will do shared libs, but I do not know how
advanced the dynamic loader is on PPC.)

--Mark


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