How to know the object files in a shared library

[V V Durga Prasad]

Hi,

Can someone help me how to know the object files in a .sl or a .a file?

Regards,
Durga

[Tom Geudens]

Hi Durga,
I believe "nm" can give you that information.
#man nm

Hope this helps,
Tom

[Rainer von Bongartz]

The nm command displays the symbol table of each object file

Regards
Rainer

[Olav Baadsvik]

Hi,

As your question is "hot to know the object files...", the two first responses are not
correct.

To see what object-files are ina .a use the
following (exampe for libc.a)

ar -tv /usr/lib/libc.a

For shared libs you may use this command:

odump -compunit /usr/lib/libc.1

It will give a lot of output but also what
source-files were used to compile to the
.o files. It will also show when compilation
was done and compiler used, options etc.

Regards
Olav

[V V Durga Prasad]

Hi Olav,

Thanks for the info.

For the .a files, "ar -tv" is working perfectly. But for the .sl files, "odump -compunit" is not giving the list of .o files.

Rather, 'strings <.sl file> | grep "\.o' is useful to some extent with non-striped .sl files. Is there a way further if we can get the list of .o files from a striped .sl file?

Regards,
Durga

[Kyoungjin Kim_1]

Hello,

odump is not included in HPUX11.0 CORE OS Media.

If you install recent "ld(1) Linker & Tools Cumulative Patch", (PHSS_24303: recommended, PHSS_26262: most recent)
odump will be installed in /usr/ccs/bin.

Hope this helps.

[Olav Baadsvik]

Hi again,

You are right in saying that odump -compunit
does not give a list of .o files.
But it gives info about what source-files
were compiled to produce the .o files that
make up the library. It is listed under
column name.
So assuming that
the files were compiled without using -o
option, the .o filename will be the same
as the source-filename except for the .o
For striped .sl files I see no solution.

What problem do have that makes you need this
info? I ask because knowing the real problem
often leads to solutions along other paths
than first followed.

Regards
Olav