Re: Shared or dynamic?!

[Dan Saul <daniel saul gmail com>]

I have only just started with libraries myself, but the best I can
explain it to you is this:

      * Static libraries are hardly different then .o files, except
        rather then a .o file for each of your source files there is
        only one, the library.
      * Dynamic Libraries is any code that must be loaded before the
        application starts, eg. libc, gtk... This is the type of library
        you should use 80% of the time.
      * For the rest you have loadable libraries, basically plugins,
        flash is a plugin for example.

A quick google search got me this page;

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LibraryArchives-StaticAndDynamic.html

It appears to have everything you need.

G'day, Dan

On Wed, 2007-30-05 at 07:59 +0200, Tomasz Jankowski wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm going to write network library hardly based on GLib to improve my
> programming skills. However I haven't wrote any library so far, so I haven't
> got any experience with it. :( After reading libtool documentation I became
> a bit confused, because I don't know what kind of library should I build. My
> library should be linked with program while compilation process, not loaded
> during runtime, so I thought, that I must build a static library, but
> libraries such as GTK+ or GLib in /usr/lib directory have *.so prefix. I
> don't understand it... :( Can someone explain it for my? What kind of
> library should I build?
>
> (Sorry for posting it on this mailing list, but i don't know any reliable
> source of information. Moreover we can say, that it's someway linked to GTK+
> apps programming, because I'm using GLib ;P)