> You don't need special compiler options to use a shared object. If you got it as a binary, there is nothing to compile. I was referring to the header file. U

> You don't need special compiler options to use a shared object. If you got it as a binary, there is nothing to compile. I was referring to the header file. Unfortunately, with C/C++ you need compile options to fully interpret source code. > The incomplete information in header files isn't the compiler command line options, but the nuances of the API semantics. No doubt there's much more to API semantics than basic type information. But the latter is still valuable.