Re: How to compile with .so libraries instead of .a ones?

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:50:21PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I always thought that the libxx.a libraries are needed to compile 
> programs. However it appears that it is
> possible to compile programs without them (I suppose this means .so 
> version will be used). This I gather from the
> response from the debian maintainer of libqt-dev (testing) - libqt-dev  
> only contains libqt.so and other .so files.
> 
>  Can you please let me know what options I am supposed to provide to 
> the compiler for such binary builds?
> 

I was interested in that same question recently which seems like a short
good start. Look at the section about dynamic linking:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6463

> Thanks and Regards
> Ramesh
> 
> 
> 
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