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From: q8e192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Henry Avatar Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: From .a to .so
Date: 21 Apr 1997 21:26:25 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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This is my limited understanding of dynamic libs:

1) they end with a .so
2) one can specify their path via LD_LIBRARY_PATH

my question is: How do I make a shared/dynamic library given
a file that ends with a .a?
(BTW are shared and dynamic synonyms)

thx,
Henry Chan
q8e192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca
Free BSD2.1.0