cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese) (03/22/91)
allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes: |sane@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Aamod Sane): || I would like to know if shared libraries are a SunOs feature || or are available on most flavors of Unix (BSD, SysV)? | |System V has shared libraries, but you have to design your libraries for them |--- they are *not* trivial to set up. I know little about the SunOS |implementation, but it looks rather easier to use. | |(Has this been addressed in SVR4?) sVr4 has both sVr3 and SunOS style shared libraries. It is assumed that the SunOS style ones will be the standard, but I don't know of any plans to get rid of the older ones. On the other hand, I'm neither a sVr4 guru nor a shared lib guru. Name: Christopher J. Calabrese Brain loaned to: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ att!ulysses!cjc cjc@ulysses.att.com Obligatory Quote: ``pher - gr. vb. to schlep. phospher - to schlep light.philosopher - to schlep thoughts.''
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (03/27/91)
>sVr4 has both sVr3 and SunOS style shared libraries. It is assumed >that the SunOS style ones will be the standard, Yes, given that the S5R4 ABI's all depend on dynamic linking to SunOS-style shared libraries.... >but I don't know of any plans to get rid of the older ones. In order run binaries linked with them, presumably.