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wrapping MSDK to a shared library

Jacky_W_
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I was trying to wrapper MSDK sample codes to a shared library, when I ran into this issue:
relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

Can anyone help me out of this? Thanks a lot.

Something must be mentioned here:
1. Before compiling it to a shared library, I tested my codes by compiling it to a static library, and everything is fine.
2. Tried add -fPIC to my Makefile which used to build the shared library, nothing new happened.\
3. My working environment:
Intel Media SDK:4.0.024-HSW
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 server 64 bit with kernel 3.2
CPU: Core ivy bridge i7-3770

Here is the detail error info:

g++ -Xlinker -fPIC -shared -o "libmsdk_dec.so"  ./kdvcodec_msdkdec.o ./vaapi_decode_render.o   -lmsdk_common -lmfx -ldl -lva -lva-x11 -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: ./kdvcodec_msdkdec.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
./kdvcodec_msdkdec.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [libmsdk_dec.so] Error 1

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andy4us
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MY guess is that the sources also need to be rebuilt. Force a clean. Probably it is not rebuilding the sources because the source files have not changed, so it's just trying to relink.

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Jacky_W_
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What source are you refering to? If you mean the source of my wrapper, then it has been rebuilt for times (with all .o files cleaned/removed), however, whatever I do, the error remains.

I'm wondering, could it have something to do with the mfx.lib which I can never rebuild???

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Jacky_W_
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Update:

This issue has been confirmed that was caused by one another static library libmsdk_common.a which did not add -fPIC in compiling.
After rebuilt that library with -fPIC, then my library finally can be built as a shared library.

Thanks.

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