Creating a simple Makefile to build a shared library

Question

I am trying to create a very basic hand crafted Makefile to create a shared library to illustrate a point.

This is what I have so far:

SHELL = /bin/sh
CC         


        

Answer 1

Compile with -shared:

gcc -o libfoo.so module1.o module2.o -shared

(This also works on MingW under Windows to produce DLLs.)