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>Hi,

>What are *.so files?  It used to be *.a files.

*.so files are shared libraries (aka DLLs). *.a files are static
libraries. Links to shared libraries are resolved at load time of the
binary, rather than at link time. This results in smaller binaries,
greater code-reuse and many other benefits. Of course, to run the
dynamically linked binary, you need all the libraries it's linked to
dynamically.

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>I found an rpm file for Lapack.  There, the archived file is not
>liblapack.a, but liblapack.so.  What is the postfix "so"?  Can I just
>use this file as if it is *.a file?

Just use -L<path to lib directory containingliblapack.so> -llapack in
your link line. Oh, and read the release notes for binutils somewhere
on TSX-11, if that doesn't work out-of-the-box.

As for what 'so' stands for? Dunno - Shared Object?

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>Thanks.

>G. Hugh Song

Regards,
Alex.
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