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Date: 	Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:03:56 -0500
From: Edward Ing <edward.ing@utoronto.ca>
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Subject: Static Link, Dynamic Link Libraryies, Shared Libraries, runtime libraries  and which ones are which?
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My understanding is that Shared libraries are symbolic linked
during compile by actuall get called during runtime.

Thus to my ears shared libraries, runtime libraries and DLL
are really the same name for the same thing. Is this correct?

How can you distinguish between static libraries and shared libraries
on the FreeBSD library tree?

Edward Ing