"External" object files

From: Doru-Catalin Togea (doru-cat_at_ifi.uio.no)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:48:44 +0200

Hi!

I am runing RedHat 9.0 with gcc 3.2.2.

I am writting a webcam module for an aapplication of mine. I want to use
as a starting point the code of xawtv, and call functiones implemented
there.

My problem is that my application is located some other place then the
xawtx code and I do not know how to refere to (#include) the relevant
xawtv code. It is not reasible to relocate my code into xawtv's source
tree.

Most of the code relevant to me is implemented into the
../xawtv-3.93/console/webcam.c file with no corresponding header file.
There is also a .../webcam.o file from the compilation of xawtv.

Is it possible to somehow link against webcam.o and make use of the
functionality of that object file?

Generalizing, this is a question of linking from "external" object files
too. How do I do that?

Thanks if anyone can help.
Catalin 

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