[Barrelfish-users] netd and howto get files into BF/Qemu

[Kornilios Kourtis]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:21:21PM +0000, Peter  Simon wrote:
> I think Ihor ran into this problem before (with the same unclean fix). 
> vfs_init() sets up the linkage between libc and libvfs, but the linker 
> decides not to call it, as there's nothing explicitly calling libvfs 
> from libc.
> 
> Does anyone know how to force the linker to call a constructor? That 
> would solve this problem.

The problem probably is that libc does not reference any of the libvfs symbols,
so the module is not linked at all. A trick to force ld to link libvfs is to
explicitly set a vfs symbol as undefined  when linking. This can be done by
passing --undefined=vfs_dummy (maybe this is why vfs_dummy was there?) to ld,
or -Xlinker --undefined=vfs_dummy to gcc.

I've tested a simple example:
$ cat ../usr/tests/filetests/fopen_test.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    FILE *fh = fopen("PIZZA", "w");
    fclose(fh);
    return 0;
} 
$ tail -5 ../usr/tests/filetests/Hakefile
  build application { target = "fopen_test",
                      cFiles = [ "fopen_test.c" ],
                      addLibraries = ["vfs", "nfs", "lwip", "contmng", "timer" ]
                    }
  ]
$ make ./x86_64/sbin/fopen_test
gcc [lots of options]
$ nm ./x86_64/sbin/fopen_test | grep vfs | wc -l
0
$ gcc -Xlinker --undefined=vfs_dummy  [lots of options]
$ nm ./x86_64/sbin/fopen_test | grep vfs | wc -l
234

cheers,
Kornilios.

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Kornilios Kourtis