the .a archive format header requires a timestamp. This has led to countless headaches when I rebuild a static library, mainly because I can't exactly reproduce the original binary. For example (t...

I'm trying to add an SDK to my Xcode project. The SDK contains .a files and (headers) .h files. The headers are imported to my Bridging-Header file (successfully). In the headers there is an #incl...

I have a project, in the Framework, there have *.framework, *.dylib, *.a libs. I want to know what's them? and the difference between them.

I just gone through native development in android. I am successful in getting my AndroidStudio 2.2.2 ready for native debelopment I also build sample hello-jni project What I am trying to achieve...

I've generated libBox2D.a. Now I want to import it to C++ project, but I don't know how. How I can import my libBox2D.a to my project using CMake?

I'm trying to ship a static library via cocoapods. I was given the library without any build directions right now its a drop in to my iOS app. I don't need to build the library for each application...

I'm currently trying to port a C application to AIX and am getting confused. What are .a and .so files and how are they used when building/running an application?

I have a small piece of code that depends on many static libraries (a_1-a_n). I'd like to package up that code in a static library and make it available to other people. My static library, lets c...

I am making a test setup of a C static library and program. The library code, located in a subdirectory 'foo' of my project, contains the following files: foo/foo.c: #include <stdio.h> void...

I have an indecision about converting my project in to lib or to framework in order to use it in another project and hide my code. I've been looking the web for some material about what is better,...

If one builds static libraries in one's build scripts and one wants to use those static libraries in linking the final executable, the order one mentions the .a files is important: g++ main.o hw.a...

I need to collect some data from different .a files to one array. I do it by collecting data to one section first .c file TArElement __attribute__((section(".my.special.section"))) uwiveuve = { ...

I've a little problem: I have to open a linker file that has .a extension. I use Dev-C++.