19 Jul
2018
19 Jul
'18
10:59 a.m.
On Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 11:39:30 -0600, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
"John P. Linderman"
<jpl.jpl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This has been the case for FreeBSD too for as long as I can recall. I
thought it was the case for all .a libraries.
$ uname -a
FreeBSD eureka.lemis.com 10.2-STABLE FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE #2 r290972: Wed Nov 25 11:38:38
AEDT 2015 grog@stable.lemis.com:/usr/obj/eureka/home/src/FreeBSD/svn/10/sys/GENERIC
amd64
$ file /usr/lib/libc.a
/usr/lib/libc.a: current ar archive
Greg
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I guess it [ar] lives on in the creation of
"libraries" that could be
loaded by compilers, although I think shared objects have largely replaced
archive files, and I'm not sure if archive files are even accepted any more.
Archive files (static libraries) are alive and well and work just fine,
on Linux and every other *nix that I know about. The format is even
used on Windows for static libraries and for whatever you call them when
linking dynamic libraries (they provide the symbols, but not the dll).