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stable gust May 15, 2024, 11:49 AM

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Hi, so, I'm studying C, and came across shared libraries, now I kinda understood the concept of the OS linking them to the executable, but I don't understand how the soname/realname libmat works, can anyone help??

scenic geodeBOT May 15, 2024, 11:49 AM

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<@&987246683568103514> please have a look, thanks.

balmy copper May 15, 2024, 4:32 PM

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Shared libaries are exactly what they sound like. On linux, it's .so, on windows: .dll, not sure about mac. The basic idea is that if your program wants to use a function, rather than bundling it in with your executable, you can simply reference it during compilation, and during run time, the linker would resolve those references and your program would work as expected

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I've had this answer bookmarked for a few years: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2650053/18902234

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This also helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slfwk28vhws&pp=ygUjc2hhcmVkIGxpYmFyaWVzIGxvdyBsZXZlbCBsZWFybmluZyA%3D

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