References

• A ToC of the 20 part linker essay

  https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/, which is written by Ian Lance Taylor

  1. Introduction, personal history, first half of what's-a-linker

  2. What's-a-linker: Dynamic linking, linker data types, linker operation

  3. Address spaces, Object file formats

  4. Shared Libraries

  5. More Shared Libraries -- specifically, linker implementation; ELF Symbols

• https://www.ucw.cz/~hubicka/, author of the gold linker

• Rod Evans: Surfing With a Linker Alien http://www.linker-aliens.org/blogs/rie/

  1. Hello there

• Michael Walker's Weblog http://www.linker-aliens.org/blogs/msw/

  1. Hello World

  2. How to build a Shared Library

  3. Library Bindings - let's be a little bit more precise shall we

     Note

     It shows the usage of LD_DEBUG, pldd, ldd, pgrep elfdump.

• Solaris Linking Blogs (Combined Index) http://www.linker-aliens.org/blogs/

• LD_LIBRARY_PATH - just say no

  http://www.linker-aliens.org/blogs/rie/entry/tt_ld_library_path_tt/

• https://github.com/berkus/odin/blob/master/tools/sjofn/sjofn.c

  An ELF linker. Read its source code!