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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!unixg.ubc.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cs.ubc.ca!q8e192 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 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5jgm21$bet$2@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39463 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