Shared libraries and .h files

Question

I have some doubt about how do programs use shared library.

When I build a shared library ( with -shared -fPIC switches) I make some functions available from an exte

Answer 1

If you use CMake to build your project, you can use

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(targetname libraryname)

As in:

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(myprogram mylibrary)

To create the library "mylibrary", you can use

ADD_LIBRARY(targetname sourceslist)

As in:

ADD_LIBRARY(mylibrary ${mylibrary_SRCS})

Additionally, this method is cross-platform (whereas simply passing flags to gcc is not).