On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 21:34 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote: > Thanks very much! I guess I am not confident enough to call myself a developer, > I am just writing a C program and I would like to use the library. So, there > are also two .so files? > > /usr/lib/libqhull.so.5 > /usr/lib/libqhull.so.5.0.0 This looks like a runtime package. You might also need to install the corresponding devel package which would have /usr/lib/libqhull.so (a symlink to /usr/lib/libqhull.so.5.0.0). > I was wondering: how do I link a .so file? I know how to handle .a files (for > instance, I can call libm.a using -lm and -L for the library path). The same for a .so. The linker will link to the .so in preference to .a unless you specified non_shared or static as a compiler/linker option. > But I don't > know what to do with a .so file. I also don't know how to find the difference > between the two .so files above. Probably /usr/lib/libqhull.so.5 is just a symlink to /usr/lib/libqhull.so.5.0.0. -- Ian
