Dynamic loader usage in RTEMS 5.1

[Chris Johns]

On 14/1/2023 7:58 am, John Clemens wrote:
> I'm trying to understand how to build/link code to use the dynamic loader in
> RTEMS v5.1. I'm using
> https://docs.rtems.org/releases/rtems-5.1/user/exe/loader.html as a reference.
> 
> My codebase has a core object and several components that will be loaded at boot
> time.  I do the 2-pass linking step with the embedded global symbol table on my
> core object, and then run rtems-syms to generate "*-sym.o" objects for my
> runtime files (but do -not- send them through a second linking pass).
> 
> Now I have a core object and several "fooX.o" and "fooX-sym.o" files.. what do I
> do from here?  Are the fooX-sym.o files supposed to be linked into the core
> object somehow?
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing an obvious step.  Any pointers?

Have you read the documentation in the User Manual:

https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/exe/loader.html

If you still have some questions, please ask.

Chris