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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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Libtool

How do you build shared libraries on different Unix platforms without adding a lot of very platform-specific conditional code to your build system and source code? This is the question that the libtool package tries to address.

There's a significant amount of common functionality among Unix-like platforms. However, one very significant difference has to do with how shared libraries are built, named, and managed. Some platforms name their libraries libname.so, others use libname.a or even libname.sl, and still others don't even provide native shared libraries. Some platforms provide libdl.so to allow software to dynamically load and access library functionality at runtime, while others provide different mechanisms, and some platforms don't ...

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