Re: how to develop library ( .a and .so files) ! URGENT!!!

zoltan wrote:
> Gordon Burditt wrote:
>
>>> This is not homework but something related to my project. One
>>> of my modules is to develop a generic library for the DNS NAPTR
>>> Query and I don't have any previous experience in this.
>>
>> Code does not have to be in a generic library, or even in a
>> library, to function. You can simply write some functions and
>> include these functions (in the form of source code file(s)) in
>> the set of files compiled for each program. If you need working
>> programs, figuring out how to make libraries should not be a
>> source of urgency.
>
> The concept would work great with me but my Manager wants me to
> develop such a library. It is for the sake of the specs given to
> me that I have to develop this library.

Argue about it. The time to put things in a library is after they
have been thoroughly tested and their interface shown viable.
Especially the interface. In general the standard library
interfaces have been shown to be useful and viable, apart from
gets.

Cart, horse, order, relative, of. Man, mouse, which?

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