Dears,

Recently I faced a problem in running a shell script from the cron that executes a certain informix script using sacego. After investigations I knew that I should create symbolic links in /usr/lib to $INFORMIX/lib/esql/libif*.so, in this directory I notice that there are files with extension ".a".

I would like to know what is the difference between the files with extensions ".so" and the files with extension ".a", and what relation do they have?

Best regards,
Jihad Daouk

I not sure...but this is library to differs SO...

I think this not belong to this forum


*.a files are mostly static libraries
*.so files are mostly dynamic libraries

linking to static libraries includes the actual code for the library functions/procedures with the executable and
its size will be large when compared to an executable which uses dynamic libraries.

Thank you stanislav,