error: lib.a: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `...' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

Question

When building, linker throws this error:

Error:

error: /home/m3/repos/editor/editorlib/src/clipper/build//libclipper.a(clipper.cpp.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `_ZNKSt6vectorIN10ClipperLib8PolyNodeESaIS1_EE4sizeEv' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

I have built the libclipper.a by these commands:

cd editorlib/src/clipper
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Debug
cmake --build . --config Release

Tried

One possibility was that the Debug-Release mismatch, but as far as I checked, that as not a problem.

What could be the cause?

Does this answer your question? [How to recompile with -fPIC](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13812185/how-to-recompile-with-fpic) — Mansoor, Feb 14 '21 at 13:00
@M.A No actually, what I needed was specific CMake options =) — user3405291, Feb 15 '21 at 10:58
The CMake option you specified does the same as manually adding the `-fpic` option to the compiler command line (it wasn't in the accepted answer). — Mansoor, Feb 15 '21 at 10:59

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 14 '21 at 11:05

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The error cause might be this. It got resolved by:

cmake -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON ..

As suggested here.

answered Feb 14 '21 at 11:05

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error: lib.a: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `...' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

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