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Creating Static and Dynamic Libraries for your C Programs

Jake Bloom on November 03, 2018

G'day world! This is my first post here on dev.to. I'm stoked to be here, and today, I'm going to talk about code reuse in the C/C++ world. Bill...
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Falcão •

I just learned about this in college and it was really fun, one thing that helped me understand it better was that static libraries are .a for "archive" and dynamic libraries are .so for "shared object" :)

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tux0r •

When Sun reported on their first implementation of shared libraries, the paper they presented (I think it was at Usenix) concluded that shared libraries made things bigger and slower, that they were a net loss, and in fact that they didn't save much disk space either.

Just link statically whenever you can. It is not worth the "advantage".