dll counterpart in linux
June 14, 2003 07:12 PM
i''m a lynix newbie so i want to know what''s the counterpart of dll s in lynix with all its variations e.g:BSD, debian, redhat, mandrake, getoo ...etc also i would appreciate any tutorials, books recomendations
thanx
rad
June 14, 2003 07:15 PM
(sorry i thought there''s another one for mac)also what about mac?
rad
471
June 14, 2003 07:27 PM
The Linux Documentation Project may help explain some things here as well.
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Andrew
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[edited by - acraig on June 14, 2003 8:27:48 PM]
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Andrew
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[edited by - acraig on June 14, 2003 8:27:48 PM]
122
June 14, 2003 08:19 PM
Yup. Shared or dynamic libraries are .so files, and static libraries are .a files. Dynamic libraries often end with a version number, like "libext2fs.so.2.4"
I''m guessing Mac OS X uses the same system; variants of the "ld" dynamic linker are the only game I know of in town for UNIX-based systems.
I don''t think the historical Mac OS even supports dynamic libraries. It has "extensions", but those are much more like TSRs or daemons then DLLs, and it''s a waste of system memory to use them like you would dynamic libraries.
I''m guessing Mac OS X uses the same system; variants of the "ld" dynamic linker are the only game I know of in town for UNIX-based systems.
I don''t think the historical Mac OS even supports dynamic libraries. It has "extensions", but those are much more like TSRs or daemons then DLLs, and it''s a waste of system memory to use them like you would dynamic libraries.
122
June 15, 2003 07:33 PM
OS X breaks up shared libraries and loadable modules, where as ELF (Executeable and Linking Format) there is no distinction between loadable modules and shared libraries.
They have the extension .dylib. Loadable modules on OS X are called BUNDLES. They have the .so extension to help with consistency across platforms, though I think Apple recommends calling them .bundle.
I think there is a special param to gcc on OS X to build a shared library. I think it''s -dynamiclib. I think -bundle will do either.
I really don''t know all the details to be honest, so you might want to research it if you want to know more.
Interim
They have the extension .dylib. Loadable modules on OS X are called BUNDLES. They have the .so extension to help with consistency across platforms, though I think Apple recommends calling them .bundle.
I think there is a special param to gcc on OS X to build a shared library. I think it''s -dynamiclib. I think -bundle will do either.
I really don''t know all the details to be honest, so you might want to research it if you want to know more.
Interim
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