Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:50:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: format of libraries Message-ID: <20000510135017.K86264@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005091739320.8432-100000@manatee.mammalia.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005091739320.8432-100000@manatee.mammalia.org>
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On Tuesday, 9 May 2000 at 17:46:49 -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: > I installed a linux program on my machine which includes a library > libxxx.a. I was wondering if libraries need to be "brandelf"-ed as well > as executables. > > But when I did "brandelf libxxx.a" it said that it was not an ELF > format. So I checked other libraries with the suffix .a. They > also were not ELF. But all the .so libraries said they were ELF. > > What format are the libraries with .a suffix? ar(1) format. It's basically an archive of object files. > Does anything need to be done with them if they are linux binaries? Not that I know of, except that you probably won't be able to link them with FreeBSD, because they assume a different environment. There are some exceptions, though, notably functions that don't make any calls to other functions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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