On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 07:59:40AM +0200, Tomasz Jankowski wrote: > I'm going to write network library hardly based on GLib to improve my > programming skills. However I haven't wrote any library so far, so I haven't > got any experience with it. :( After reading libtool documentation I became > a bit confused, because I don't know what kind of library should I build. My > library should be linked with program while compilation process, not loaded > during runtime,
Why? (If the library is private to one package, that counts as a reason, but see below.) > so I thought, that I must build a static library, but > libraries such as GTK+ or GLib in /usr/lib directory have *.so prefix. I > don't understand it... :( These are shared libraries. In most cases shared libraries are what you want. > Can someone explain it for my? What kind of > library should I build? If the library will be used only inside one package, build it as a libtool convenience library. Otherwise build shared, static or both depending on what the user wants. This works automatically, AC_PROG_LIBTOOL adds corresponding options to configure, with the default to build both types (provided that it's possible on the target platform). Yeti -- http://gwyddion.net/ _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
