Re: makeing a loadable module

From: Eric Gaumer
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 01:13:25 EST


On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 23:28 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I found some code I can play with/hack/etc, in the form of a loadable
> module and some testing driver programs, in 'dpci8255.tar.gz'.
>
> Unforch its for a slightly different card than the one I have, and
> once I've hacked the code to suit, I need to rebuild it.
>
> So whats the gcc command line to make just a bare, loadable module for
> say a 2.4.25 kernel? Obviously I'm missing something when it
> complains and quits, claiming there is no 'main' defined, which I
> don't think modules actually have one of those?
>
> What I'm trying to do (hey, no big dummy jokes please :)
>
> [root@coyote dist]# cc -o dpci8255.o dpci8255lib.c
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.3/../../../crt1.o(.text+0x18):
> In function `_start':
> : undefined reference to `main'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> The gcc manpage isn't that helpfull and I've now read thru it twice.

This should work for a single source file

]$ gcc -O2 -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/src/linux/include -c dcpi8255.c

If your using SMP then you'll need to define that as well.

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Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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