Hey... If I just built a library for any open source software for C++, what file type should the library files come in? .a OR .o files? Thank you.
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Jump to PostI'd say an ".a" file. An object file typically contains object code for a single source file, while an ".a" file contains multiple of them. (It is an archive of multiple .o files) So both did not involve any linking yet. Also note that this is a static library as …
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