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From: Joe Buehler <jbuehler AT hekimian DOT com>
Subject: Re: idea for mixed import/static libraries and linking with DLLs
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:17:49 -0500
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Apologies if this approach has already been mentioned.  I thought
> it was kinda neat.

AIX has something interesting.  All libraries are ar libs.  You can
have shared objects in them, or plain .o files, or a mixture of both.
The same library can be used for dynamic or static builds.

Further, since all code is position-independent, you can easily
make a shared library from any .o file.
-- 
Joe Buehler



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