hellishfire
November 18th, 2009, 06:30 AM
Hello, recently I began to try compiling programs without an IDE, and gcc is the tool I use(gcc version 4.3.3 in ubuntu 9.04).
The sample program is a simple one, written in C.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int main(){
double a=2.0;
double x=sqrt(a);
printf("result=%f\n",x);
return 0;
}
I took four different approaches to compile this code.
gcc sqrt.c -lm -o sqrt_default
gcc sqrt.c /usr/lib/libm.so -o sqrt_dynamic
gcc sqrt.c -static -lm -o sqrt_static_1
gcc sqrt.c /usr/lib/libm.a -o sqrt_static_2
All compilations were successful, and the results were as follows:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oracle 9186 2009-11-18 13:16 sqrt_default
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oracle 9186 2009-11-18 13:16 sqrt_dynamic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oracle 597277 2009-11-18 13:16 sqrt_static_1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oracle 22176 2009-11-18 13:16 sqrt_static_2
The first two compilations shared the same file size(9186), which is to be expected given the fact that gcc uses dynamic library as default.
However, the latter two confused me. I assumed that the latter two both used static library, yet their file sizes were quite different(597277 vs 22176).
Can someone tell me why? Aren't (-static -lm) and (/usr/lib/libm.a) the same thing?
Thanks in advance!
The sample program is a simple one, written in C.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int main(){
double a=2.0;
double x=sqrt(a);
printf("result=%f\n",x);
return 0;
}
I took four different approaches to compile this code.
gcc sqrt.c -lm -o sqrt_default
gcc sqrt.c /usr/lib/libm.so -o sqrt_dynamic
gcc sqrt.c -static -lm -o sqrt_static_1
gcc sqrt.c /usr/lib/libm.a -o sqrt_static_2
All compilations were successful, and the results were as follows:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oracle 9186 2009-11-18 13:16 sqrt_default
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oracle 9186 2009-11-18 13:16 sqrt_dynamic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oracle 597277 2009-11-18 13:16 sqrt_static_1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oracle 22176 2009-11-18 13:16 sqrt_static_2
The first two compilations shared the same file size(9186), which is to be expected given the fact that gcc uses dynamic library as default.
However, the latter two confused me. I assumed that the latter two both used static library, yet their file sizes were quite different(597277 vs 22176).
Can someone tell me why? Aren't (-static -lm) and (/usr/lib/libm.a) the same thing?
Thanks in advance!