Hi all,

I am developing an application in Tcl, inwhich i have to load many modules written in C. I am converting those C modules into shared object(.so) files, and wrap it with my application using SWIG, for which i had the interface file.

Now my question is, i have two different .so files, let me name it as (prog1.so) and (prog2.so). My prog1.so contains 5 functions and my prog2.so contains 3 functions.

If i load prog1.so file individually in tclsh shell, i can able to call the functions available in prog1.so. Similarly for prog2.so also. But i want to call all the functions available in both the prog1.so and prog2.so .

Can Anyone help me to sort this problem out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the procedure what i did. kindly correct me if i did something wrong.

step 1:
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I have the "prog1.c" file and interface file "prog1.i " and creating a wrapper code for it using the command

$ swig -tcl prog1.i

This will give me "prog1_wrap.c" which is a wrapper code for my C program.

step 2:
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Now i compile the prog1.c and prog1_wrap.c using the following command

$ gcc -fPIC -c prog1.c prog1_wrap.c -I /usr/local/include

This will give me prog1.o and prog1_wrap.o files.


step 3:
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Now i create a prog1.so file using the following command

$ gcc -shared prog1.o prog1_wrap.o -o prog1.so

step 4:
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Here i will go to the tclsh shell and Load the (.so) file.

% load ./prog1.so prog1

This will load the file and i can able to call the function available in prog1.c

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I can do the same for any no.of programs individually. But if i try to combine shared object files of two programs i can't able to load it in tclsh shell.

I tried with the following commands to merge the (.so) files, I doesnt know whether it make sense.

1.
$ gcc -shared prog1.so prog2.so -o combine.so

2.
$ gcc -shared prog1.o prog1_wrap.o prog2.o prog2_wrap.o -o combine.so


I hope these where not correct method to merge a two different shared object file.

I am Expecting your Valuable suggestions!!!
Thanks in Advance.



Regards,
Kumar.