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From: q8e192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Henry Avatar Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Shared Libraries
Date: 22 Apr 1997 20:14:13 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Could someone tell me how to make a shared library?
I have a .a file which I could 'ar x' to some .o files.
Now how do I make a .so (shared objects) or .sa (shared archives)
file out of this initial .a file?


thx,
Henry Chan
q8e192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca