Greetings everyone, Suspecting that my problem is a tools issue (either a bug or incorrect usage) I first went to the PB list. But it seems the NKE's special needs are apparently significant and someone with more knowledge of that is required. So now I'm trying on this list. For reasons of code factoring (and limiting the distribution of some sensitive source code) I'm trying to build an NKE with a portion of it coming from a static library. After some difficulty I think I have the library (done via Project Builder's new Library target assistant) building correctly. But the final link of the NKE is failing with a strange error message. The error initially was: ld: /Users/cashwell/Documents/dev/Drop5/odShimMac4/bin/Debug/darwin/ libnetShim.a(init.o) incompatible, file contains unsupported type of section 6 (__TEXT,__picsymbol_stub) in load command 0 (must specify "-dynamic" to be used) /usr/bin/g++3 -o "/Users/cashwell/Documents/dev/Drop5/odShimMac4/netShim/../bin/Debug/ darwin/netShim.kext/Contents/MacOS/netShim" "-L/Users/cashwell/Documents/dev/Drop5/odShimMac4/netShim/../bin" "-L/Users/cashwell/Documents/dev/Drop5/odShimMac4/bin/Debug/darwin" "-F/Users/cashwell/Documents/dev/Drop5/odShimMac4/netShim/../bin" -filelist "/Users/cashwell/Documents/dev/Drop5/odShimMac4/netShim/../bin/_tmp/ 00netShim.build/netShim.build/Objects-normal/LinkFileList" "-lnetShim" "-arch" "ppc" "-static" "-nostdlib" "-r" "-lkmodc++" "-lkmod" "-lcc_kext" Seeing the "pic" reference in the error, on a lark I added "-fno-pic" to the library. With that the error becomes: ld: /Users/cashwell/Documents/dev/Drop5/odShimMac4/bin/Debug/darwin/ libnetShim.a(init.o) incompatible, file contains unsupported type of section 5 (__DATA,__nl_symbol_ptr) in load command 0 (must specify "-dynamic" to be used) I'm at a loss here. Can someone point me to the problem? I just want to link a static library into an NKE. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.