On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:52:45 -0600, in comp.sys.hp.mpe "rs"
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> We have installed the gnu compiler, and successfully set up C/C++
> programs and built static libraries. This is with the posx shell.
>
> How does one go about making these libraries shared/dynamic. I see that
> in /usr/lib there are two versions like for cursors, a (.a) and (.sl) so
> the support is there. Have not been able to find the documents for this.

It's done essentially the same way as with gcc on other platforms, so the
standard gcc manual should be helpful.

Here's one example of taking three objects (file1.o, file2.o, and file3.o)
and creating a shared library (really an MPE XL file) from them:

$ g++ -shared -o libmysl.sl --for-linker="-b -ashared" file1.o file2.o
file3.o

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G.