[haiku-3rdparty-dev] Re: Makefile engine for drivers in x86_64

  • From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-3rdparty-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:49:10 -0400

Are you compiling with PIC - position independent code?  Is it needed?  Or does the kernel device driver code loader do relocation fixups?

According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5311515/gcc-fpic-option it's mostly relevant for shared libraries which are simultaneously loaded at different addresses in the code spaces of different processes. Probably not needed for device drivers, since I assume they're only loaded once.

So, why does the linker think it is building a shared library?

- Alex

On 2019-10-14 5:55 p.m., Axel Dörfler wrote:

Hi there,

I'm trying to build a 64-bit version of a driver that uses the standard makefile-engine. However, linking is failing with this error:

relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

Does anybody have an idea on how to fix this?
I've already added -mcmodel=kernel/medium and a few other options I found in our ArchitectureRules (-mno-red-zone, -fno-omit-frame-pointer, -z max-page-size=0x1000), but it didn't change anything.

Bye,
   Axel.



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