UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, all. IM new to this forum.

I wanted to write a shared library for my program. However, I need the library to have some self initialization routines before anyother functions in the library are called.

Like the ones available for gcc __attribute__ ((constructor)).

I tried int _init(void), it didn't work. And I read thru many library documents but didn't find anything particular.

Is there any way that I can do this? Or is there even such mechanism to allow you self initialize in a library before anything happens?

My developing environment: Solaris 9 with CC (using C++, library contains class objects)

Thank you for your kind help.

C++ itself supports global initializations of things. You can do things like:

Code:

int global_variable=some_global_function();

This would be illegal in C, but is legal in C++.