what are the libp***.a files for?
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Rod wrote:
what are the libp***.a files for?
These are units compiled with smartlinking.
If you use the smartlinking feature, then the .a
files are used instead of the .o files.
Takes longer to link, but the resulting binaries are smaller.
Michael.
what are the libp***.a files for?
Now: smartlinking.
In the future: gone, or changed to they original meaning, static lib (like
.lib with VC). (An .a is an archive of .o's)
See also buildfaq (I hope it is more verbosely in there somewhere):
http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf
