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LoupVaillant / Monocypher

An easy to use, easy to deploy crypto library
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Had to change soname to install_name on macos, but I don't really know why #266

Open SethArchambault opened 1 year ago

SethArchambault commented 1 year ago

Was getting this error:

$ make
cc -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -O3 -march=native -L/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/lib -shared -Wl,-soname,libmonocypher.so.4 -o lib/libmonocypher.so.4 lib/monocypher.o lib/monocypher-ed25519.o
ld: unknown options: -soname
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [lib/libmonocypher.so.4] Error 1

And someone on stackoverflow said to change soname to install_name, so I did that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4580789/ld-unknown-option-soname-on-os-x

And it worked! But not very scientific and could have downsides.. But figured I'd let ya know.

-   $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname,$(SONAME) -o $@ $(MAIN_O)
+   $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-install_name,$(SONAME) -o $@ $(MAIN_O)
LoupVaillant commented 1 year ago

Hmm, good catch, but I’ll need to investigate. I have a couple fixes in mind:

  1. Accepting your change, if it turns out it works with other compilers and linkers.
  2. Put the -soname option itself into a variable instead of hard coding it.
  3. Use ld or $(LD) or similar instead of $(CC) for the link step. May be combined with step 2 to work with clang, should someone use it to, say, enable link-time-optimisation or use a special link script.

Putting it on hold for now, I should get to it in one or two weeks. In the mean time, if you fancy doing some testing let me know what you find, this’ll help me.

aikawayataro commented 1 year ago

but I don't really know why

No soname for Darwin, but there's a similar feature "Install name". It was used by you as a workaround but it's Darwin-only, so no way this gonna work anywhere else.