X-Git-Url: http://git.liburcu.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=e2b52aa026f74a3ff598c774bc034baefe01c5aa;hb=a7859af5c73c3f7cc863702d322d86fc2c4523ab;hp=a3979763353d079bd8a6c1c1261f13446d3ca382;hpb=8792fbae78ad62185ad53119a3aa4fec44dc9361;p=lttng-ust.git diff --git a/README b/README index a3979763..e2b52aa0 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -56,14 +56,35 @@ USAGE: - Create an instrumentation header following the tracepoint examples. See lttng/tracepoint.h, and examples. - - Either compile the Tracepoint probes with the application: + + There are 2 ways to compile the Tracepoint Provider with the + application: either statically or dynamically. Please follow + carefully: + + 1.1) Compile the Tracepoint provider with the application, either + directly or through a static library (.a): + - Into exactly one object of your application: define + "TRACEPOINT_DEFINE" and include the tracepoint provider. - Use "-I." for the compilation unit containing the tracepoint provider include (e.g. tp.c). - - Link application with "-ldl -llttng-ust". + - Link application with "-ldl". + - If building the provider directly into the application, + link the application with "-llttng-ust". + - If building a static library for the provider, link the static + library with "-lllttng-ust". + - Include the tracepoint provider header into all C files using + the provider. - Example: tests/hello/ hello.c tp.c ust_tests_hello.h Makefile.example - - Or compile the Tracepoint probes separately from the application, - using dynamic linking: + + 2) Compile the Tracepoint Provider separately from the application, + using dynamic linking: + - Into exactly one object of your application: define + "TRACEPOINT_DEFINE" _and_ also define + "TRACEPOINT_PROBE_DYNAMIC_LINKAGE", then include the tracepoint + provider header. + - Include the tracepoint provider header into all instrumented C + files that use the provider. - Compile the tracepoint provider with "-I.". - Link the tracepoint provider with "-llttng-ust". - Link application with "-ldl". @@ -72,6 +93,7 @@ USAGE: needed. - Example: - tests/demo/ demo.c tp*.c ust_tests_demo*.h demo-trace + - Note about dlopen() usage: due to locking side-effects due to the way libc lazily resolves Thread-Local Storage (TLS) symbols when a library is dlopen'd, linking the tracepoint probe or liblttng-ust @@ -122,7 +144,7 @@ PACKAGE CONTENTS: - tests Various test programs - - liblttng-ust-libc + - liblttng-ust-libc-wrapper An example library that can be LD_PRELOAD'ed to instrument some calls to libc (currently malloc() and free()) in any program without need to recompile it.