Hi all, I am Swapnil . I wanted to link the shared libraries . Let me tell you how I tried to link them but I am not too sure whether it is correct or not ,I did it according to tutorial . I wrote some libraries by using X lib for instance some header "test.h" in which I wrote function prototypes , a sample program sample.c and body of functions defined in header is in file def.c . As all files are in same dir then there no problem while compiling and running . Next I created Makefile it consists of following statements

all: gcc -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib/ -lncurses -lm sample.c def.c -o try

till here everything is OK after this I modified Makefile to create shared libraries like this

all: gcc -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib/ -lncurses -lm -shared sample.c def.c -o try.so

Shared object created successfully . then I copied header test,h to /usr/include then I copied try.so to /usr/X11R6/lib then I run command #ldconfig to update library database (No errors here) Next If try to compile program , then I get error for functions which I have included

, "sample.c:(.text+0x2a3): undefined reference to `function_name'

If you know something is wrong here or way is to do it this then please tell me immediately I would have been very thankful to them .

Hare Krishna ...Swapnil