[Trilinos-Users] Building with -fPIC flag

[Bill Spotz]

Chris,

Position independent code is associate with shared libraries.  I believe that if you configure with

    -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON

then all of the libraries should be compiled properly for you.

-Bill

On Jul 29, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Christopher Parmer wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm linking my trilinos project with matlab and so I (er.. matlab mex files) need the libraries to be 'position independent' or compiled with the -fPIC flag. 
> 
> I tried rebuilding trilinos (via ccmake, make, make install) with -fPIC in CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS, (and later I added it to CMAKE_C_FLAGS, CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS), but I get the same error with respect to the libaztecoo and a few other packages. However, my simple examples with Epetra CrsMatrices now work. 
> 
> Am I missing a flag somewhere? Or are some libraries not written to be 'position independent'?
> 
> Sorry if this is a simple question - I'm very new to linking and building large packages. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
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