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Re: Shared Object (library) semantics
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:05:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: Shared Object (library) semantics
- References: <4037C61C.3030100@cox.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:57:00PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
>A double-barreled question.
>First, would someone please point me toward some general [U[?[Li]?nix
>discussions. Answers to this may well take care of the second.
>Given that the Cygwin pages are a likely focal point for Windows users
>just finding their way around *nix, a pointer from the web page such as
>"the Cygwin list isn't really a good place for general *nix questions.
>Some better places for those are <a></a> and <a></a>.
The cygwin list isn't a really good place for general *nix questions but
lets start a nice long thread on where the best place for general *nix
questions might be. Nyuh uh.
Just typing "general unix questions" into google should be more than
enough to get you started.
>Second, where can I read up on the design semantics of *nix "shared
>object" (.so) libraries, and how they differ from M$ .dll's?
"*nix" shared libraries have various flavors so the question is too
broad. However, linux and many other unix variants use the ELF format
for their executables/shared libraries. So, doing a google search
for "dll ELF differences" would probably be instructive.
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