I’m building a simple C++ program and I want to temporarily substitute a system supplied shared library with a more recent version of it, for development and testing. I tried setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable but the linker (ld) failed with: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lyaml-cpp I expected that to work because according to the ld man … Read more
I know an .so file is a kind of dynamic library (lots of threads can share such libraries so there is no need to have more than one copy of it in memory). But what is the difference between .a and .la? Are these all static libraries? If dynamic libs have big advantages over static … Read more
For convenience I added the relevant manpages below. My (mis)understanding first: If I need to separate options with ,, that means that the second -Wl is not another option because it comes before , which means it is an argument to the -rpath option. I don’t understand how -rpath can have a -Wl,. argument! What … Read more
