what is a .la file
Ian Mortimer
ian at physics.uq.edu.au
Tue Apr 3 05:08:52 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 21:34 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
> Thanks very much! I guess I am not confident enough to call myself a developer,
> I am just writing a C program and I would like to use the library. So, there
> are also two .so files?
>
> /usr/lib/libqhull.so.5
> /usr/lib/libqhull.so.5.0.0
This looks like a runtime package. You might also need to install the
corresponding devel package which would have /usr/lib/libqhull.so (a
symlink to /usr/lib/libqhull.so.5.0.0).
> I was wondering: how do I link a .so file? I know how to handle .a files (for
> instance, I can call libm.a using -lm and -L for the library path).
The same for a .so. The linker will link to the .so in preference to .a
unless you specified non_shared or static as a compiler/linker option.
> But I don't
> know what to do with a .so file. I also don't know how to find the difference
> between the two .so files above.
Probably /usr/lib/libqhull.so.5 is just a symlink
to /usr/lib/libqhull.so.5.0.0.
--
Ian
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