Thanks, I guess I'll recompile then. I notice, though, that there's a
libcamlrun_shared.so (for the bytecode runtime). Is there any reason we
don't also get libasmrun_shared.so by default?

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Jeff Meister <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, you should recompile OCaml with -fPIC. I ran into the same problem a
> few months ago, and noticed this bit of information in the INSTALL file:
>
>   On a Linux x86/64 bits host, to build the run-time system in PIC mode
>   (enables putting the runtime in a shared library,
>    at a small performance cost):
>     ./configure -cc "gcc -fPIC" -aspp "gcc -c -fPIC"
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Alex Rubinsteyn <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to package up some OCaml code (along with C bindings) as a
>> shared library. However, I'm encountering the following linker error:
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/ocaml/libasmrun.a(startup.o): relocation
>> R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared
>> object; recompile with -fPIC
>> /usr/lib/ocaml/libasmrun.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
>>
>> Do I have to recompile OCaml with -fPIC to put the runtime inside a
>> shared library?
>>
>>
>>
>

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