GNU Libtool

For version 1.0, 3 July 1997

• Introduction
  • Motivation for writing libtool
  • Implementation issues
  • Other implementations
  • A postmortem analysis of other implementations
• The libtool paradigm
• Using libtool
  • Creating object files
  • Linking libraries
  • Linking executables
  • Installing libraries
  • Installing executables
  • Linking static libraries
• Invoking libtool
  • Compile mode
  • Link mode
  • Dlname mode
  • Install mode
  • Finish mode
  • Uninstall mode
• Integrating libtool with your own packages
  • Writing `Makefile' rules for libtool
  • Using Automake with libtool
  • Configuring libtool
    • Invoking ltconfig
    • Using ltconfig
    • The AM_PROG_LIBTOOL macro
  • Including libtool with your package
    • Invoking libtoolize
    • Autoconf `.o' macros
• Library interface versions
  • What are library interfaces?
  • Libtool's versioning system
  • Updating library version information
• Tips for interface design
  • Writing C header files
• Inter-library dependencies
• Dlopened modules
  • Exporting dynamic symbols
  • Finding the correct name to dlopen
  • Unresolved dlopen issues
• Using libtool with other languages
  • Writing libraries for C++
• Troubleshooting
  • The libtool test suite
    • Description of test suite
    • When tests fail
  • Reporting bugs
• Maintainance notes for libtool
  • Porting libtool to new systems
  • Tested platforms
  • Platform quirks
    • Compilers
    • Reloadable objects
    • Archivers
    • The strip program
  • libtool script contents
• Index

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