Got the following error when I tried to compile a C application in 64-bit FreeBSD:
relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
What is R_X86_64_32S
relocation and what is R_X86_64_64
?
I've googled about the error, and it's possible causes - It'd be great if anyone could tell what R_X86_64_32S really means.
The R_X86_64_32S
and R_X86_64_64
are names of relocation types, for code compiled for the amd64 architecture. You can look all of them up in the amd64 ABI. According to it, R_X86_64_64
is broken down to:
and R_X86_64_32S
to:
which basically means "the value of the symbol pointed to by this relocation, plus any addend", in both cases. For R_X86_64_32S
the linker then verifies that the generated value sign-extends to the original 64-bit value.
Now, in an executable file, the code and data segments are given a specified virtual base address. The executable code is not shared, and each executable gets its own fresh address space. This means that the compiler knows exactly where the data section will be, and can reference it directly. Libraries, on the other hand, can only know that their data section will be at a specified offset from the base address; the value of that base address can only be known at runtime. Hence, all libraries must be produced with code that can execute no matter where it is put into memory, known as position independent code (or PIC for short).
Now when it comes to resolving your problem, the error message speaks for itself.
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