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Subject: Re: gpsim Almost Compiled.
From: Alex Holden
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:34:03 +0000

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 23:47, Sean A. Walberg wrote:
> To link, you'll need libpopt.a.  The .so is the runtime version,

That's not quite right. .a files are for linking statically and .so
files are for linking dynamically. You don't need a .a file to link a
program dynamically, and if you link a program statically you don't need
the .so file at runtime.

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