newbie .a or .so

[shirish]

Hi all,
No developer/programmer here. Just somebody who wants to see your library in Debian as it is a requirement of quite a few games.

I tried to access the FAQ pdf but could not find it.

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$ wget http://www.continuousphysics.com/Bullet_Faq.pdf
--2011-02-25 21:37:18--  http://www.continuousphysics.com/Bullet_Faq.pdf
Resolving www.continuousphysics.com... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www.continuousphysics.com'

I say this as its possible that the question may have been asked before (a FAQ) and I'm just re-inventing the same question in which case sorry.


I saw a bug about getting bulletphysics in debian which was put up around 3 years ago.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476284

There was discussion on the said topic :-

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-ga ... 00213.html

The end state/result seemed to be that the developers were not happy because bullet did/does .a files while most libraries have .so . For e.g.

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/usr/lib/libOgreProperty.so
/usr/lib/libOgreMain.so
/usr/lib/libOgrePaging.so
/usr/lib/libOgreRTShaderSystem.so
/usr/lib/libOgreTerrain.so

Now all that discussion was around 3 years ago. Would like to know if you provide still the .a or have moved on to .so

Looking forward to know more.

[goldleaf]

Well, you can get either *.a(static linked) or *.so (shared object, dynamic linked), depending on how it is compiled.