Re: [Help-gsl] Linking error

[marco cammarata]

Hi,

The .a and .so are quite different files;
.a are for static linking (i.e. at compile time)
.so are for dynamic linking (i.e. at running time)

I don't see why you had to do that, you can use the .a files ?
In other words I cannot understand the sentence "the extension of the .a
files to .so files since the Linux system needs .so files"

I never used Visual studio but on unix/linux you can even mix .so and .a
files while compiling. Btw on my platform (ubuntu) I got the two
versions ...
Maybe you should switch to a more programmer friendly linux rather then
using windows :)

I hope it helps,
marco

> I think that this error is due to the fact that I modified the .a files into 
> .so files, but I searched the files libgsl.so and libgslcblas.so without 
> success. Does someone have any idea where I could find at least a 
> libgslcblas.so file allowing this error to be cancelled? Or does someone have 
> any other suggestion to solve this problem?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> Florent Eggenschwiler
> 
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