[NCLUG] extracting library from statically linked executable

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:09:36PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>In theory, if the original objects were compiled "position independant",

Can you have a statically linked binary using a PIC compiled library?  I've
only ever used PIC for .so and non-PIC for static linking.  Though, I admit
that I don't know if that's a rule for static compilation or just a
convention.  It's definitely a rule for .so, AFAIK.

Sean
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