GNU Libtool

For version 1.4.2, 10 September 2001

This file documents GNU Libtool, a script that allows package developers to provide generic shared library support. This edition documents version 1.4.2.

See section Reporting bugs, for information on how to report problems with libtool.

• Introduction
  • Motivation for writing libtool
  • Implementation issues
  • Other implementations
  • A postmortem analysis of other implementations
• The libtool paradigm
• Using libtool
  • Creating object files
  • Linking libraries
  • Linking executables
  • Debugging executables
  • Installing libraries
  • Installing executables
  • Linking static libraries
• Invoking libtool
  • Compile mode
  • Link mode
  • Execute mode
  • Install mode
  • Finish mode
  • Uninstall mode
  • Clean mode
• Integrating libtool with your package
  • Writing `Makefile' rules for libtool
  • Using Automake with libtool
  • Configuring libtool
    • The AC_PROG_LIBTOOL macro
  • Including libtool in your package
    • Invoking libtoolize
    • Autoconf `.o' macros
  • Static-only libraries
• Library interface versions
  • What are library interfaces?
  • Libtool's versioning system
  • Updating library version information
  • Managing release information
• Tips for interface design
  • Writing C header files
• Inter-library dependencies
• Dlopened modules
  • Building modules to dlopen
  • Dlpreopening
  • Finding the correct name to dlopen
  • Unresolved dlopen issues
• Using libltdl
  • How to use libltdl in your programs
  • Creating modules that can be dlopened
  • Using libtldl in a multi threaded environment
  • Data associated with loaded modules
  • How to create and register new module loaders
    • Error handling within user module loaders
  • How to distribute libltdl with your package
• Using libtool with other languages
  • Writing libraries for C++
• Troubleshooting
  • The libtool test suite
    • Description of test suite
    • When tests fail
  • Reporting bugs
• Maintenance notes for libtool
  • Porting libtool to new systems
    • Information sources
    • Porting inter-library dependencies support
  • Tested platforms
  • Platform quirks
    • References
    • Compilers
    • Reloadable objects
    • Multiple dependencies
    • Archivers
  • libtool script contents
  • Cheap tricks
• GNU Free Documentation License
  • Preamble
  • APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
  • VERBATIM COPYING
  • COPYING IN QUANTITY
  • MODIFICATIONS
  • COMBINING DOCUMENTS
  • COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
  • AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
  • TRANSLATION
  • TERMINATION
  • FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
  • ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
• Index

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