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Static Library

Posted Mar 19, 2010 6:05 UTC (Fri) by nikanth (guest, #50093)
Parent article: Applications and bundled libraries

Use static libraries and provide a single binary. Why do we need dynamic libraries, unless we want to provide multiple binaries for a package?

Static linking could achieve the goal without violating the Linux model.

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Static Library

Posted Mar 19, 2010 15:32 UTC (Fri) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]

Static linking has the same disadvantages as bundling own libraries, with
the addition that you can't easily see which apps bundle which libraries,
making e.g. security support that much harder.