GNU linker: alternative to --version-script to list exported symbols at the command line?

Question

On Linux with the GNU toolchain, I know how to control exported symbols from a shared library with a version script (gcc -Wl,--version-script=symbols.map), but I would like to list exported symbols on the command line instead. IOW, I would like the equivalent of

link /EXPORT:foo 

from the MS toolchain. Is it possible ?

EDIT:

My question may not be very clearn: if I have a library libfoo.so, and I want to only export libraries foo1 and foo2, I can go create a version script foo.linux as follows

libfoo.so
{
global:
    foo1;
    foo2;
local:
    *;
}

And do

gcc -shared foo.c -Wl,--version-script=foo.linux -o libfoo.so -soname libfoo.so

I would like to be able to do something like this instead:

gcc -shared foo.c -Wl,--export-symbol=foo1 -Wl,--export-symbol=foo2 -o libfoo.so -soname libfoo.so

Answer 1

I'm not sure that you can do this like you want. One way is with the linker version script like you mentioned. Another way is to add in your source code __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))) for whatever you want exported and compile everything with -fvisibility=hidden

Answer 2

I may be eight years late, but yes, you actually can do what you want.

Use Bash process substitution:

gcc -shared foo.c -Wl,--version-script=<(echo "{global:foo1;foo2;local:*;};") -o libfoo.so -soname libfoo.so

Answer 3

readelf and objdump have lots of options. How about:

readelf --symbols --use-dynamic $yourlib.so