hi,
try ELF-HOWTO at www.linux-howto.com
Raju
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Yasushi Shoji wrote:
> hi all,
>
> is it possible for ELF executable to be run without
> shared libraries which is linked at compile time but
> not needed at run time?
>
> for example, there is an ELF executable called foo,
> and foo needs libbar.so for function bar().
>
> my understanding is that kernel will load libbar.so
> into memory when foo calls function bar. if foo doesn't
> call function bar, libbar.so is not loaded at all.
>
> then why does libbar.so have to exist when foo is executed?
> is it just a limitation of ELF? i think even under the ms-windows,
> linked(?) dll doesn't have to exist if a binary doesn't call it.
> --
> yashi
>
> ps. pointers to books, web, whatever is also appreciated
>
>
