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Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C)
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Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C)

by Zed A. Shaw
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
10h 15m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Exercise 29. Libraries and Linking

A central part of any C program is the ability to link it to libraries that your OS provides. Linking is how you get additional features for your program that someone else created and packaged on the system. You’ve been using some standard libraries that are automatically included, but I’m going to explain the different types of libraries and what they do.

First off, libraries are poorly designed in every programming language. I have no idea why, but it seems language designers think of linking as something they just slap on later. Libraries are usually confusing, hard to deal with, can’t do versioning right, and end up being linked differently everywhere.

C is no different, but the way linking and libraries ...

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