GNU Libtool

For version 1.2a, 19 April 1998

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Motivation for writing libtool
  • 1.2 Implementation issues
  • 1.3 Other implementations
  • 1.4 A postmortem analysis of other implementations
• 2 The libtool paradigm
• 3 Using libtool
  • 3.1 Creating object files
  • 3.2 Linking libraries
  • 3.3 Linking executables
  • 3.4 Debugging executables
  • 3.5 Installing libraries
  • 3.6 Installing executables
  • 3.7 Linking static libraries
• 4 Invoking libtool
  • 4.1 Compile mode
  • 4.2 Link mode
  • 4.3 Execute mode
  • 4.4 Install mode
  • 4.5 Finish mode
  • 4.6 Uninstall mode
• 5 Integrating libtool with your own packages
  • 5.1 Writing `Makefile' rules for libtool
  • 5.2 Using Automake with libtool
  • 5.3 Configuring libtool
    • 5.3.1 Invoking ltconfig
    • 5.3.2 Using ltconfig
    • 5.3.3 The AM_PROG_LIBTOOL macro
  • 5.4 Including libtool with your package
    • 5.4.1 Invoking libtoolize
    • 5.4.2 Autoconf `.o' macros
  • 5.5 Static-only libraries
• 6 Library interface versions
  • 6.1 What are library interfaces?
  • 6.2 Libtool's versioning system
  • 6.3 Updating library version information
  • 6.4 Managing release information
• 7 Tips for interface design
  • 7.1 Writing C header files
• 8 Inter-library dependencies
• 9 Dlopened modules
  • 9.1 Building modules to dlopen
  • 9.2 Dlpreopening
  • 9.3 Finding the correct name to dlopen
  • 9.4 Unresolved dlopen issues
• 10 Using libtool with other languages
  • 10.1 Writing libraries for C++
• 11 Troubleshooting
  • 11.1 The libtool test suite
    • 11.1.1 Description of test suite
    • 11.1.2 When tests fail
  • 11.2 Reporting bugs
• 12 Maintenance notes for libtool
  • 12.1 Porting libtool to new systems
  • 12.2 Tested platforms
  • 12.3 Platform quirks
    • 12.3.1 References
    • 12.3.2 Compilers
    • 12.3.3 Reloadable objects
    • 12.3.4 Archivers
  • 12.4 libtool script contents
  • 12.5 Cheap tricks
• Index

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