[Coin-discuss] shared vs static libs

[Matthew Galati]

got it. thanks!



> Hi Matt,
>
>> I think I am getting static libs... how can I tell. In the old days 
>> it was .a or .so. My app doesn't seem to be picking up changes 
>> without a relink... so I think I have static.
>>
>> Note, I am also doing --enable-debug configure. Is the default 
>> different for debug vs optimized?
>
>
> Ah! --enable-debug changes the default for the libraries to be static 
> - because that makes running the debugger much easier.  You can 
> overwrite this by both --enable-debug --enable-shared --disable-static
>
> Cheers
>
> Andreas
>
>>
>>> Matt,
>>>
>>>     You should get shared libraries by default, where available, at 
>>> least
>>> in the optimised build. The option --enable-shared 
>>> (--disable-shared) will try
>>> to force the issue. Similarly, --enable-static (--disable-static).
>>>
>>>     configure --help=recursive will get you a comprehensive listing 
>>> of the
>>> available options. You can specify any option in the top-level call 
>>> to configure; they'll be passed along as the top level configure 
>>> invokes configure in subdirectories.
>>>
>